Re: A-Z Geography
Posted: Mar 04, 2020 4:27 pm
Sassafras, Victoria — a lovely little town in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges just east of Melbourne
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Yess.. most likely, but, as well, there are heaps of pre 1066 battles in English history, some nobody might have heard of. It would be interesting to know what happened there.Cleander wrote:(I wonder if "slaughter" just refers to a place where livestock were butchered or something??....)
waggawerewolf27 wrote:Yess.. most likely, but, as well, there are heaps of pre 1066 battles in English history, some nobody might have heard of. It would be interesting to know what happened there.Cleander wrote:(I wonder if "slaughter" just refers to a place where livestock were butchered or something??....)
Thank you for the explanation. Sometimes people can get the wrong idea about place names.Courtenay wrote:So no slaughtering at all, despite what the name sounds like.
waggawerewolf27 wrote:At the moment, in Sydney, it seems we are in the middle of the Great Self-Isolating Toilet Roll panic. At our major supermarkets we are only allowed to buy one packet of 18 rolls, or less, at a time, & we even have security staff enforcing it at checkouts. People are reporting thefts of such grocery items from shopping trolleys, backyard "dunnies" (Aussie term) & the like. It seems even the State Parliament was affected... I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Maybe things are a bit saner, South of the Border?
Courtenay wrote:
Nothing, actually. According to Wikipedia and other sites (this is an interesting one), the name simply comes from "slough", meaning wet or muddy land. In fact, Upper Slaughter has been rated as a "Doubly Thankful Village" because it lost no men (or women) in either WW1 or WW2 — there are only 14 villages in the whole of England that have that distinction. So no slaughtering at all, despite what the name sounds like.