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Example sentences for: runes

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Anyone can enjoy knowing how a $10 bill came to be called a sawbuck (the Roman numeral "X" that appeared on early notes reminded people of the wooden sawbuck used in carpentry), or how the word "robot" came into English (it comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "drudgery," and was part of the title of a widely popular 1920 Czech play), or how the Indo-European root for "beech tree," "bhago-," gave us the word "book" (Germanic tribes used beech staves to carve runes on).
The author makes an interesting attempt to account for several features of the runestones: the reason for their being left in Maine, the presence of Danish and other words in the inscriptions, the implications of runic inscriptions in which oghams occur together with runes, etc.
The illustrations are pleasing and informative and the runes are neatly transcribed.