Complex sentence: Bunkum is an alternate spelling of Buncombe, also sometimes shortened to bunk, and is a term which, by 1828, had come into general use in political Washington to mean speechmaking designed for show or public applause.
Split into simpler sentences: Bunkum is an alternate spelling of Buncombe, also sometimes shortened to bunk. It is also a term which, by 1828, had come into general use in political Washington to mean speechmaking designed for show or public applause.