SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Units Of Paper Quantity, Evelyn Lau, Julie Doucet
14 Jan 2013
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The word book in english is derived from northern european languages, and has been noted to especially be rooted in the danish word, bog which means birch tree . In denmark, the birch tree was most plentiful and was used for engravings (see donaldson 12). The latin word for book , liber was used by the romans to describe the thin layer of wood between the bark and the tree trunk. They used this layer of peel to write on before parchment and paper. The oxford english dictionary offers the following in the way of the etymology of. A common germanic word, differing however in gender and other points in the various languages. With old english b c monosyllabic feminine (plural b c) compare old frisian and old saxon b k (plural b k) feminine and neuter (middle. Dutch boek neuter and often masculine, dutch boek masculine), old high. German buoh (plural buoh) neuter, also masculine and feminine (middle high.
