2113: podunk Sep 27, 2020

The word 'podunk' these days refers to a hypothetical sort of small uninteresting town in America but its origins were not from an imagine place. The word actually comes from Algonquin people who lived around the Podunk River in what is now Connecticut, probably from a native word meaning 'a boggy place'. The name was popularized in writing from New York or New England in books or news paper series as a generic name for an imaginary, boring place.