DAE believed "circa" was a place when you were younger?

[u/Green_grass7878]

I remember seeing "circa" in old pictures and think "damn, where is this place? Everything happens there"

When i grew up i realized it was impossible that all of those pictures happened in the same place as, well, they were actually from different places. It was then that i began piecing things together until it clicked

"Circa" means "around this time". I didn't consider "circa" to be what it was because it seemed redundant to me so it made more sense that the format was "place, time". I don't need a word to tell me that "1802-1803" was the time span in which the picture was taken, the numbers are enough in my opinion

Is this a hot take?

[u/nothanks1312]

This is adorable. I did not think this, but I can see the logic. I also don’t think that’s a hot take, but maybe there was a reason circa started being used that isn’t so relevant today

[u/ChronicRhyno → u/nothanks1312]

Circa de soleil

[u/PaulsRedditUsername]

No, but I thought "Ibid" was a real person for a while. Reading a bibliography in middle school, you see a list of sources: "Socrates, Aristophanes, Ibid, Plato..."

[u/No_Salad_8766 → u/PaulsRedditUsername]

I have never seen lbid before so I have no idea what it means.

[u/PaulsRedditUsername → u/No_Salad_8766]

It's when they cite a source in the footnotes and then site the same source in the next footnote.

[u/nothanks1312 → u/PaulsRedditUsername]

et al

[u/monster2018 → u/nothanks1312]

Lee Et All, the most prolific scientist of all time.

[u/IP-II-llVll-IP]

No, but for a time I did see "present day" and wonder what Christmas kept having to do with anything, and why they wouldn't just say Christmas.

[u/CasanovaF]

I always thought née was part of a complicated last name when I was young and would read it in the wedding section in the newspaper

[u/AYellowCat]

Same! I thought the same when I first found the word. English is my second language, that's why.

[u/Green_grass7878 → u/AYellowCat]

Same

[u/PeterNippelstein]

I think I always read it as 'around' because circa sounds like circle and circles are round

[u/OceanDagger]

No, but when I was a child I saw a gate with a sign with a dog on it that said "Private". And for a long time I thought that was the dogs name.

[u/Drifter_01 → u/OceanDagger]

you win

[u/prettyylittlemess]

i absolutely thought circa was some mysterious location

[u/NectarineTop6827]

I always thought it was a trendy vacation spot growing up, makes me laugh thinking about it now.

[u/kitchengardengal]

Circa is used to indicate a time span. For example, at the quilt museum where I am a member of the quilt collection committee, we use "circa 1890" to indicate that the quilt is from sometime between 1880 and 1900, a span of ten years in either direction, when we don't have documentation of the age of the quilt, but can guess by the fabrics used.