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Show ! SHALL IT BE "BUNK" OR "BUNC?" i The Former the Northern, the Latter the Southern Spelling. "It never occurred to me that there , could be any two ways of spelling the ,' word 'bunk.'" said the scholarly appearing ap-pearing person who was studying the sporting section of the newspaper, "Lut I happened to pick up a Mem-! Mem-! phis newspaper the other day and as ! a head to a speech node by Commls-J Commls-J sloner Lbomis In Tokyo recently I , read: 'Loomls Hands Out the Bune.' I "Now, without endeavoring to go j Into tho merits of the case so put I want to nay only that the headline meant that Mr. Loomls was accused , of softsoaplng the Japanese ho ad-I ad-I dreFsod. -The only other authority for the spelling of the word comes from I the sporting cartoonists, whose work I I study carefully. . They are unani-. unani-. nious In spelling It 'bunk.' j "It appears to me that the southern version Is baaed 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 dopv nature, who might as well bo lving in a bunk, wrapped in slumber. Thpre-fore Thpre-fore when a person Is bunked he is , rendered sleepy. That is merely conjecture." |