[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:

>On 05/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 9/5/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>As to the second argument - did anyone ever provide any evidence to back up
>>>the assertion that BCE/CE in academe was a US thing, with non-US academics
>>>using BC/AD?
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>>I ran seachers on the journal databases I had acess to. BCE didn't
>>really feature US or otherwise.
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>Hah. So those claiming it was the standard practice in US academia
>should in fact be required to produce their evidence?
>
Of course one deeds to remember that there are societies, such as the 
one outraged by Janet Jackson's breast, where political correctness is 
more important than personal freedom. :-)

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