Words and Stuff-Where they come from! by scubahead

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hive-114105 · @scubahead · Jul 30 '20 (edited)

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Words and Stuff-Where they come from!

Hello to all you hivers,
![Screen Shot 20200730 at 10.07.57 PM.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/scubahead/JZz2SyVy-Screen20Shot202020-07-3020at2010.07.5720PM.jpeg)


the other day I posted [The Power Of Wednesday](https://hive.blog/hive-114105/@scubahead/the-power-of-wednesday) and told an old cheeky story of my youth and how I found out why Wednesday was called Wednesday. Now I had some great engagement and feedback from this from the #hive community and it made me remember another time at the dive shop bar that we discovered the origins of another word or saying.

# Balders with instructor Phil
![BALD.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/scubahead/Wn5wfCM5-BALD.jpg)






We have a repeat Guest called Baldrick. That's correct just like the Blackadder TV show character. Now his name isn't actually Baldrick but he has an uncanny resemblance to Tony Robinson and even sounds like him. So everyone calls him Baldrick, even the sign at the airport when we pick him up from the airport says Baldrick. Last time he arrived very late at night and I had a cooler of beer in his room with a note thet read " A Cunning Plan"

# Baldricks cunning plan to go diving
![21B3CB1D9D9B4F96B9698C569C756C5F.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/scubahead/HPGjCWIS-21B3CB1D-9D9B-4F96-B969-8C569C756C5F.jpeg)

So we are at the Dive shop bar one evening ( as you do) knocking back a few beers ( as you do) and Baldrick had noticed a little drama in the background that I'd had to deal with. It was getting a Divemaster to do the night dive. One DM in particular was not fond of doing them and would cause problems when it was his turn but I got everything covered and the night dive went out. Baldrick asked why the Divemaster in question didn't want to do it and why had another Divemaster stepped in. I said " well to be fair he lives way out in the "Boonies" and it makes it a real ball ache and a long day getting home." Baldrick said " Boonies , I've heard that before is that a place?" I laughed and said "no mate he lives in the middle of nowhere, the boonies , the boondocks" I tried to explain it's probably an American expression for middle of nowhere etc but I got to thinking where does it actually originate. 
# Dive Shop Evening Drinks
![bar.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/scubahead/zS03nWFq-bar.jpg)

I did a bit of tinterwebbing and was amazed to find out that the phrase was indeed from America but actually originated here in the Philippines. You see during  The 1899 – 1902 Philippine- US war the American soldiers would often find themselves in the mountains and in Tagalog "Bundok" is Mountain and so they equated the word BUNDOK to mean in the middle of nowhere and took it home where it became Boondocks and then shortened to Boonies and then used by later generations like me with no reference to it's origin

So there's my second posts on word origins. It's a funny old world really and it's nice to stop once in a while and question something to see why it is the way it is and not just accept things as they are presented to us.
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@iamyohann · Jul 30 '20

We extremely rarely lingered at the bar before (right?), yet you managed to get a cctv shot of us 3..... Interesting story though.

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@iamyohann · Jul 30 '20

Lol... no comments...

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@scubahead · Jul 30 '20

alcoholics anonymous and thats just the little one ;)

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@mrnightmare89 · Jul 30 '20

Actually, I didn't understand that word that you said originated from America. Anyway, it seems fun going on that bar.

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@scubahead · Jul 30 '20

the word boonies and the saying boondocks comes from America as they changed the way they said BUNDOK. So they took the word BUNDOK back to america and used it as BOONDOCKS to refer to in the middle of nowhere. So really the words boondocks and boonies are from america but its original meaning originated in the Philippines

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@mrnightmare89 · Jul 30 '20

Now I understand, it wasn't very clear to me about that word because actually, I didn't what was the meaning of that word. After you explained it, I understood it. Lol, yeah it's the same meaning and from reading it.

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