Today not only do we debunk that historical inaccuracy, but we offer the true history of the word bunk . We begin with the maligned Mr. Ford.
History is more or less bunk.
It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. Believe it or not, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. When questioned about the irrelevance of his discourse, Walker defended himself by asserting that he was speaking to the people of Buncumbe. And by the end of the 19th century, bunkum had been shortened to bunk .