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Originally Posted by Red Hot SS
ew...too ghetto for my taste. Especially the first one
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RPI,
Nice looking stuff. Its not all for me but it looks good. BTW thanks for the rugs. They came in yesterday.
History lesson of the day:
Ghetto = The word "ghetto" actually comes from the word "getto" or "gheto", which means slag in Venetian, and was used in this sense in a reference to a foundry where slag was stored located on the same island as the area of Jewish confinement.[2] An alternative etymology is from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’. [3]
The corresponding German term was Judengasse (lit. Jew's Lane) known as the Jewish Quarter.
I am pretty sure that is not what you were referring too.
But I digress.