The word 'bunkum' can be used in written English.
It is an informal noun that means foolish or empty talk. For example: The politician's speech was full of bunkum, and it didn't address any of the major issues.
D E MORTUIS nil nisi bunkum is a good old English phrase.
It is heart-warming, but it is bunkum.
Behind the panache of his ideas often bunkum, yet sometimes catching acutely the media-dominated triviality of modern life the man was hidden.
I think the public NHS represents something important, a space where people come before profits and I think that is why people trust it so much .This is ideological, ahistorical bunkum.
Even the youngest get their share (and, bunkum or not, moving it often is); like Sarah Eames, buried in 1827 at Edenhall, in Cumbria, at the age of 12 Here is a tender branch laid lowA sweeter flower could never blowThe humblest adult could be credited with family virtues.
Given a surfeit of green PR bunkum, it is not easy to know whether they mean what they say.
But they both agree that a recent Free Exchange column about China's investment spending is bunkum.
The accusation is bunkum, of course, but then my father was born in pre-partition India, and every time I walk past the desk of this newspaper's venerable defence correspondent, he asks me for bin Laden's number.
Speaking outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr Farage said: "Once again we have the Conservatives talking about EU reform, and once again their claims are utter bunkum.
The idea that a Liberal Conservative coalition was the expression of the semi-mystical will of the people is bunkum.
Except, like so much golden-age theorising, it's bunkum.
