The week has whizzed by and it’s Wednesday again. What is your word of the day today? I’d love to hear from you.

As I was thinking about my word for this week, I recalled a word I often heard my dad say. Bunkum – what a great word that can be said with feeling. It’s a 19th century word and its origin is Buncombe, a county in North Carolina USA. Apparently Felix Walker, Buncombe’s Congressional Representative, made a particularly inane speech around 1820 and so bunkum was born. When said, it means you think something is untrue or very stupid/ inane.

I wonder, as I write this, where my dad first heard the word and why he liked it so much.