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[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Wow, I can't believe that's actually a real place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderkill_River

I know -kill is a popular suffix for a stream or river anywhere there was a Dutch colony, but the murder- part threw me off for sure. According to that Wikipedia article at least, it comes from either "moeder" (mother) or "modder" (muddy) and would therefore either mean "mother river" or "muddy river".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's right down the road from "Slaughter Beach"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Funny you mention that, there literally is a slaughter beach in Florida. It just uses the Spanish word, matanzas. There's also slaughter high school and slaughter state forest, and fort slaughter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Had a lot of that when i lived in Ft. Wayne Indiana. A lot of stuff was called "Aboite" which supposedly came from the french word abattre or slaughter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh wow didn't know there was one in Florida too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

::checks watch::

Yup, time to fire up my Clutch playlist again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can't spell Slaughter Beach without laughter!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

"We have places your family can hide in peace and security. Cape Fear, Terror Lake, New Horrorfield, Screamville..."

"Oooh, Ice Creamville!"

"No, Screamville."

screams

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

From the link:

Dick Carter, Chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission, states that the name of Murderkill River is taken from the original Dutch for Mother River. Mother is moeder in Middle Dutch, and river is Kille. Later, under British rule, the word "River" was added to the waterway's name, effectively making it "mother river river."

The term "kill" is used in areas of Dutch influence in the Netherlands' former North American colony of New Netherland, primarily the Hudson and Delaware Valleys to describe a creek, river, tidal inlet, strait, or arm of the, sea such as Bronx Kill in New York and Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania.

Delaware's creeks and rivers are slow-moving and there is deep mud associated with marshy rivers. Dutch "modder" = mud, a false cognate to "mother." Modder Kill = Muddy Creek or Muddy River. The word is still used in Dutch, such as this Dutch video of a tractor stuck in mud ("vast in de modder").[12]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

So the killer misunderstood the ~~entomology~~ epistemology?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

God, that must be so embarrassing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The killer was misled by bugs?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aw crap. Let me make that worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

That would be an ecumenical matter!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Modderkill River wouldn't be as bad I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're a publisher that hates modders on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nintendo lawyers have entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Say it to your modder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I once found a canal with name roughly translating to murder canal. Back in the days when that area was not populated, killers used to drop dead bodies there to make those disappear. An unidentified (afaik) body was found a few years ago too.