Show SHALL IT BE BUNK OR bunca BUNC 7 the former the northern thi the latter the southern spelling it never occurred to me that there could be any two ways of spelling the word bunk 11 gild aid the scholarly ap an person who was studying the sporting section of 0 the newspaper but I 1 happened to pick up a mem aphis newspaper the other day and as a head to a speech made by commas eloner loomis in tokyo recently I 1 read loomis hands out the dune bunc now without endeavoring to go into the merits of at the case so put I 1 want to say only that the headline meant that mr loomis was accused 0 at soft soaping the japanese he addressed the only other authority for or the spelling of the word comes canies from the sporting cartoonists whose work I 1 study carefully they are unanimous in spelling it bunk it appears to me that the southern version la Is based on a belief that the word Is a diminutive of buncombe the northern spelling may be due to the belief that a person who may be bunked Is a person of sleepy or copy nature who might as well be lying in a bunk wrapped in slumber therefore when a person Is bunked he Is rendered sleepy that la is merely conjecture |