Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Gotta tell where "bunk" comes from.
The word "bunk" has an interesting birth as a slang word. Buncombe is a county in North Carolina's 16th congressional district, at least was originally. A local US congressman representing that district would not shut up on the House floor on an issue, as his people expected. Congress has other pressing matters. Thus accounts for the origin of the slang word "bunk". Here is something interesting... the word "candidate" means one who wears white. A Roman candidate for office wore a white toga to signify his purity of purpose. Maybe this is something both current US Houses should adopt including the WH occupants. Hey one more, the word "boycott" takes its name from Captin Boycott, a land agent in Ireland in the 1880s. He was unpopular with the farmhands because of his severity; so much that they combined and refused to work for him or to permit others doing so. That word is now written boycott or boycotting. Enough.
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