[ForYourChildren]

Nice tagline “....And the rest, as they say, is history)”

I always like to say “HIS story” instead of “history.”

[Mark17]

Nice tagline “....And the rest, as they say, is history)”

I always like to say “HIS story” instead of “history.”

I like that. Do you mind if I use it? 😀

[exDemMom]

I always like to say “HIS story” instead of “history.”

Both words come to us via Latin from the Greek word, "historia." In English, we have formed two words from the original, presumably because we felt a strong need to separate the concept of a tale from that of an accounting of past events. Other languages use only one word for both contexts. The use of the word "story" to refer to a floor in a building is purely English; in French, it is a stage.