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This article makes some awfully specific recommendations. Where did they come from? Melchoir 09:33, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Seperate Circa Article?

Perhaps the latin word "circa" should be seperate page?

I made this into a disambiguation page, linked the latin bit to wiktionary, and deleted the overly specific (and likely false) dating recommendations. Elcocinero 20:07, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Redirect

I have reverted the redirect to the DAB page. I think that this article should stay because among other things it is linked to by 682 other articles. If consensus is to make it a redirect, I will obviously go with that, but I will insist that whoever does the redirect also cleans up all the double redirects per standard protocol instead of leaving them all broken. --After Midnight 0001 03:33, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, you have a point there. I redirected it, but I shall leave it in place now. --Xyzzyplugh 21:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "around"

This article is nicely written, since it details the historical use, and not just the word's origins and definition. Circa literally means "around" in American English; I remember vaguely that in British English "about" carries the same concept of following a curve or circle. I added "around" since "about" isn't often used in this sense by Americans. Also, there could be links to circumference, circumvention, and other cognates. --75.161.66.243 06:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Not sure what part of the U.S. you're from, but that is an amazingly wrong generalization. In New England, at least, we say "about" frequently, probably more often, but use both. (I suspect the British use both as well, knowing several). Keep your crazy generalizations about language to yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.169.153.63 (talk) 11:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)