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Now, let's see what we can learn about these two. Are you coming? Do you still wanna expand your knowledge in phonology? C'mon then.
What Is Their Main Difference?
We use both to refer to events, people, or anything from the past. However, 'historic' is used when we want to indicate that something/someone is important in history. 'Historical', on the other hand, is used to describe something/someone that is related to the past.
Differences
As I mentioned above, we use 'historic' to state that something is important in history. Check out the following examples:
The time I was able to defend myself is a
World War I is one of the
'Historical' basically means people, events, and anything related to or existed in the past. Let us take a look at the examples below:
Ever since I've thought about Foucault's theories on time, I lost interest in reading about
The first time I visited a
Similarities
Both have nearly the same dictations and they are used to indicate important events in history. Look below:
The Vikings is a famous example for
Letting go of the past was a
Are They Interchangeable?
These two cannot be used interchangeably because 'historic' means something that is notable in history whereas, 'historical' refers to anything that happened in the past. It may not necessarily be important. Compare:
✓ With the use of the
X With the use of the
As you can see, this one does is not correct.
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