BUNK.
•• One of the earliest of many American enrichments of the English tongue was the word “ bunkum ” —or " Buncombe,” as it used to he. spelt in lhe middle of the last century, out of compliment to the country of that name in North Carolina, whose representative had earned lasting distinction by Die facility with which he could produce fluent clap-trap. A land which has learnt to hustle has brought the original buncombe, all shorty down to ■• Imnk ” (as in the celebrated Henry Ford aphorism. “History is hunk”), hut though America lias shortened the name, there are no signs that America. is reducing the output of the actual article.” “The Manchester Guardia n.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19270716.2.5.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1927, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
112BUNK. Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1927, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in