Historic versus Historical
Mar. 10th, 2006 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The proper usage of these words came up at dinner on Wednesday night (we bought our retiring office manager a mirror that had illustrations of old buildings in Melrose and said "Historical Melrose" on the bottom). I was curious what was more proper in different contexts.
Here it is:
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980218
Yes, I'm a dork :)
Here it is:
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980218
Yes, I'm a dork :)
no subject
Date: 2006-03-10 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-10 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-10 04:45 pm (UTC)historicalistificalismic. yeah.