word history

The cards then led her to the word “history.”

They are on the verge of landing in the record books this Emmy season and they also have, for lack of a better word, history.

The word “history” can be an overused term about matters of the day, tossed around casually and often without good reason.

“Don’t you find the word history is similar to the word story? . . . History and story are very similar, in fact history and story were written the same as late as 600 years ago. But the main difference between history and story is that history should be supported by evidence but a story does not have to be. For example, when we say, ‘Shaofan was born and spent his first year and a half in Beijing,’ we have Shaofan’s birth certificate and many photos to support this claim.

Rosenblatt calls her book “a word history.”