I hope you'll all check out this book, written by my cousin, the daughter of my dad's sister.
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Break-Lori-Whitwam/dp/1937976513/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346339980&sr=1-1&keywords=make+or+break
WORD HISTORY:
Book-This word goes back to Indo European "bheghos/bhaghos," which meant "beech (tree)." This then gave its Old Germanic offspring "boks," with the same meaning, but also the extended "beechwood, where things are written/carved." This then gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "boc," which meant "written document, written record." Later the idea of fastening records or written things together produced the notion of "book as a collection of writings" we are still familiar with today. The verb was derived from the noun and was part of Old English too. Common in the other Germanic languages: German has "Buch," Low German Saxon has "Book," West Frisian has "boek," Dutch has "boek," Norwegian and Swedish have "bok," Danish has "bog," and Icelandic has "bók."
Hope your cousin does well with her book.
ReplyDeleteYes, best of luck. That's great about "book." I had no idea it came from the idea of tree wood.
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