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There's a small matter I trip over quite regularly in The Allusionist: dates.
Not the fruit.
Specificially the terminology BC and AD - Before Christ and Anno Domini ('the year of the Lord' ('the Lord' also being Christ)). How did Jesus Christ get to be all up in our system of counting the years?
READING TIME:
Listener Trace sent me this very interesting piece about how language influences your perception of time.
The case for switching over to the Holocene Era calendar.
Switching over to the Gregorian calendar was a bit of a pain, especially for Sweden.
About Greenwich Mean Time.
How the days of the week and months got their names.
New Year's Day: a moveable feast.
Mercedonius: an often missing feast.
There's a transcript of this episode at theallusionist.org/transcripts/adbc.
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CREDITS:
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. The music is by Martin Austwick.
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