1390: history and story (and Geschichte) OCt 1, 2018

The German word 'Geschichte' is the term used to mean 'story' and 'history'. This is not a post about the possibility that people considered history as subjective necessarily—that would be for a Word Theory which you can find at patreon.com/wordfacts—but it is true also that the English word 'story' comes from a bastardization of 'history' too. This is fairly peculiar given that even 'history' is from the Romance language family, not Germanic, originating from Latin and brought to English via French; 'history'—because it is from a totally different root in French—is not related to 'Geschichte', even though the fashion term 'chic' of all things is. In this way, the two terms originate from different places, but share a sort of common history, as it were.

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