The Words for Trees and Trees

Early written language was sometimes carved into barks, even though there were so many forms of writing. The word for a specific type of tree, or du tree in general, was synonymous with book. So we're just going to steal that word and say, we're justGoing to call them books. All right, i feel like i am pretty solid on what a book is now. And that means that it's time to move on to the quiz portion of our show this week.

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