Why is a Book Called a Book?
By raunnie
@raunnie (2)
India
May 6, 2009 6:48am CST
I have always wondered why a book is called a book?
I tried asking this questions in other sites too but to my surprise no one knows it..
Any answer for this guys???
2 responses
@Tigger679 (8)
• United States
6 May 09
Is this what you want to know - the history of the word "book?"
Here's a website with the "etymology" or history of words - etymonline.com Look up "book" - I always find it interesting how various words came to be.
@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
7 May 09
lol! I have no idea!!! Why is it we can use the same word and say we are going to "book" a flight? Ever wonder how that came up? And how come we call the "Bible" a book... when it is actually 66 little "books"?
Is it possible that the root of "book" means something akin to collection? or story? or something like that??
