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We generally say 'Antiquity' and 'Late Antiquity' anymore.
Ooh present-tense anymore! Really don't see that very often, but it's got a nice ring to it
Edit: it's a positive anymore not present-tense. Thank you @oktux@lemm.ee!
Can you explain please ? I don't understand their sentence as it is. What's surprising to me isn't the present tense, it's the fact that it isn't negative.
It sounds odd to me too, but I found a wiki article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore
Thanks, TIL I learned