1. "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog word "bundok", meaning mountain. Cool.
2. Apparently I'm the only person on the internet who knows that the etymology for "neck of the woods" is from the Mohawk word "nyack" (as in the town of Nyack, New York), meaning an outcropping of forest. (Lots of sites seem to know that "neck" means an outcropping of forest, but I couldn't find a single site that mentions the native American source of the word.)
3. Oh... and the color orange is named after the fruit, and not the other way around.
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