Finally reading some Bucky Fuller in the original as opposed to glosses and Wikipedia. He seems to have been equal parts humbug and savant.
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to go off on a tangent, would love to do a demographic study on the use of "humbug"
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AFAIK humbug, like many British English words, is used mostly by South Indians.
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it's used by people who want to lend an archaic 1930s charm to their utterances


