Boondocks Boondocks The boondocks is an American expression that stems from the Tagalog word "bundók" ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area, but now it is often applied to an out-of-the-way city or town considered backward and unsophisticated. It can also designate a 'mountain'. The expression was introduced to English by U.S. military personnel fighting in the Philippine–American War (1899-1902). It derives from the Tagalog word ""bundók"", which means "mountain". According to military historian Paul A. Kramer, the term originally had "connotations of bewilderment and confusion", due to the guerrilla warfare in which the soldiers were engaged. In the
Tagalog language the national language was based on Tagalog, grammarian Lope K. Santos introduced a new alphabet consisting of 20 letters called "ABAKADA" in school grammar books called "balarilà": In 1987, the Department of Education, Culture and Sports issued a memo stating that the Philippine alphabet had changed from the Pilipino-Tagalog Abakada version to a new 28-letter alphabet to make room for loans, especially family names from Spanish and English: The genitive marker "ng" and the plural marker "mga" (e.g. "Iyan ang mga damit ko." (Those are my clothes)) are abbreviations that are pronounced "nang" and "mangá" . "Ng", in most cases,