| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| past history |
| is sometimes called a redundancy, but it is actually a Standard Conversational idiom, hyperbolic but sometimes useful, stressing a more distant record of the past, in contrast to current history. Past history is not likely to be criticized except in some Edited English. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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