Why is a tree called a tree????

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Why is a tree called a tree????

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: until 1729 the word tree did not exist. it was coined by the little known English poet, Perkin runtingbold. up until that date trees were known as wooden pointy things. according to anecdotal evidence Perkin's poetry was excruciatingly bad and he had to batter about the language to get it to rhyme. one day he was stuck for a word that rhymed with breeze, 'the breeze in the leevs of the wooden pointy things', didn't work so he made up the word trees. Perkin was beaten to death by an enraged audience at one of his readings who felt cheated by the lack of rhyme, sense and even understandable English. Perkin's whole cannon of work was publicly burnt by cheering crowds, along with the libraries which held them. who knows, if his work had survived he may have been known as the father of free verse. but all we have to remember him by is the word 'tree'.