`::Regardless of the ``formal`` definitions, I've always taken BCE/CE to mean ``Before/Christian Era,`` since ``Common Era`` sounds so goofy to me (like there was no ``common-ness`` to anything before then, and then everything became common afterward, heh  obviously it refers to Christianity, not ``common-ness``). How about ``ABCDE`` that covers everything, and it is in alphabetical order! ;)    `