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Dunstan Times, Issue 3148, 18 December 1922, Page 2

"Is that a local word?" asked Mr .Justice Darling when he was told that the defence in a Knutsford (Eng.) case bad been dismissed bv the magistrates as "all bunkum." Well, it is a local word but not local lo Cheshire. It comes from the district of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. At an early Congress the member for the district petisiVtcd in his epeceh. in spite of every discouragement, pleading that his constituents expected it. and he was "bound to make a speech for Buncombe." It was in the; fifties that the word leached England. In the curly days of the Wright airplane in 1903, the speed of their machine was about thirty miles am hour. .lust recently the airplane has touched the mark ol 212 mik* aa hour.