Ida Whitten of Racine, Wisconsin, inquires concerning the term boonge [bundg]. She says that when she used the word in conversation with a teacher the latter did not know what she meant. Then she tried it on several other persons and found that no one knew it. The reference librarian could not find it listed anywhere. The word means, she says, the black that accumulates on unwashed skin. The adjective means about the same thing as 'grimy.' Elbows get boongy, unless they are carefully washed, when short sleeves are worn. Miss Whitten's family lives in Western Kansas. Her mother, who is of English origin, came from Iowa, perhaps earlier from Indiana and Missouri. Her father's family came from a German neighborhood in Eastern Nebraska but is of Yankee provenience. 'SCY'-'SCYTHE'