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Month: December 2012

Historic vs. Historical

Posted on 21 December 201223 December 2025 by The Historical Notionist

Historic or Historical?  This blog could have been named the The Historic Notionist.  However, that would be presumptuous. The two words historic and historical are often interchanged but do not mean the same thing.  In fact, the words’ proper usages are grammatically distinct.  Yet, a quick consult to the a well known and portable reference…

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