just saw someone refer to the 20th century as "XX c" and ????

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is this a common notation in some other language or something?

@Felthry Yeah, it has (had?) use in Romance languages.

I sometimes see centuries written like that when reading an older pop-archeology or (much older) pop-history book, which might be a Romance-language holdover that faded out by like 1970.

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