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Buncombe County

Name: Buncombe County
Address: US

35.6100°N -82.5300°W · Q504360

One English word in this atlas traces back to Buncombe County. It sits in United States.

All of United States

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bunkumnoun · 19th century

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Nonsense is named after a North Carolina county.

A congressman from Buncombe County is said to have given a long speech aimed only at his constituents. The county's name became the word for the genre.

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