Ahn  +  337333 Fri, 09 Mar 07 07:23 AM  The words 'slum' 'ghetto' and 'skid row' have similar meaning or do they use in different way?   Ahn Joined on Thu, Mar 1 2007 South Korea Regular Member 507

	Feebs11  +  337436 Fri, 09 Mar 07 02:01 PM Slum : a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people ghetto : a part of a city, especially when a slum area, occupied by a minority group (originally used specifically of the Jewish quarter in Venice) Skid Row: a run-down part of a town frequented by vagrants and alcoholics Thus ghettoes and Skid Row can be part of a slum. Feebs11 Joined on Thu, Nov 23 2006 UK Veteran Member 5,015

	Philip  +  337478 Fri, 09 Mar 07 04:05 PM  Ahn wrote:  The words 'slum' 'ghetto' and 'skid row' have similar meaning or do they use in different way?   This term originated in Seattle, Washington, and was originally "skid road".  Seattle started as a lumbering community, and when the trees were felled up on the hillside, the trunks were "skidded" down the slope to the waters of nearby  Elliot Bay.  The area never developed into something more pleasant, so the term came to be.  A popular history of Seattle, published in the early 70's, is titled Skid Road. Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,738 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen