Editing Anno Domini (section)

==Usage==
Traditionally, English follows Latin usage by placing the "AD" abbreviation before the year number, though it is also found after the year.<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'' 2010, pp. 476–7; Goldstein 2007, p. 6.</ref> In contrast, "BC" is always placed after the year number (for example: 70&nbsp;BC but AD&nbsp;70), which preserves syntactic order. The abbreviation "AD" is also widely used after the number of a century or [[millennium]], as in "fourth century AD" or "second millennium AD" (although conservative usage formerly rejected such expressions).<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'', 1993, p. 304.</ref> Since "BC" is the English abbreviation for ''Before Christ'', it is sometimes incorrectly concluded that AD means ''After Death'' (i.e., after the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|death of Jesus]]), which would mean that the approximately 33 years commonly associated with the [[life of Jesus]] would be included in neither the BC nor the AD time scales.{{sfn |Ryan |2000 |p = 15}}