Slumbay

English Etymology 1 thumb|Slumbay Earlier Slumba, Slumpa, from en enm Slomba, from en gd Slumba, probably from en non slaemr-vágr slim or small bay.William John Watson 1904 Slumbay Place-Names of Ross and Cromarty Inverness The Northern Counties Printing and Publishing Company,Limited; Edinburgh: Norman Macleod,25 George IV. Bridge; London: David Nutt,57-59 Longacre 194 https://archive.org/details/placenamesofross00watsuoft/page/194/mode/1up Slomba 1495; Slumba 1633; Gaelic Slumba; probably Norse ‘slaemr-vágr,’ slim or small bay. Alternatively, perhaps from en gd Slugag small pool.Robin Smith 2001 LOCHCARRON, Dalchuirn & Slumbay Alan Lawson The Making of Scotland: A Comprehensive Guide to the Growth of its Cities, Towns and Villages Edinburgh w:Canongate Books 615 https://archive.org/details/makingofscotland0000smit/page/615/mode/1up 2 1 84195 170 6 This had a kirk when noted by Timothy Pont in the late 16th century as ‘Slumpa’, perhaps derived from Gaelic Slugag, a small pool. Possibly influenced by en bay. Proper noun en A crofting <<township>> which now forms the southern section of village/Lochcarron on the north side of x/Loch Carron in r/Wester Ross carea/Highland cc/Scotland. en 1883 Alexander Mackenzie William Mackenzie Lochcarron The History of the Highland Clearances;Containing a Reprint of Donald Macleod’s “Gloomy Memoiries of the Highlands”; Isle of Skye in 1882; and a Verbatim Report of the Trial of the Braes Crofters Inverness Alexander & William Mackenzie 332 https://archive.org/details/historyofhighlan00mackuoft/page/332/mode/1up 4382998 While these things were going on in the quiet township of Slumbay, the Fiery Cross appears to have been despatched over the neighbouring parishes; and from Kintail, Lochalsh, Applecross, and even Gairloch, the Highlanders began to gather yesterday with the view of helping the Slumbay men, if occasion should arise. Few of these reached Slumbay, but they were in small detachments in the neighbourhood ready at any moment to come to the rescue on the appearance of any hostile force. en 23 February 1885 Complaints of the Crofters of Lochcarron The Glasgow Herald 103rd year 46 Glasgow 10 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/393705261/ 1 12499032 Duncan M‘Lean, Slumbay, said that the local clergy were opposed to the land agitation, and that the Free Church minister of Plockton was reported to have made use of strong language in denouncing the agitation and those who took part in it. en 1960 Lochcarron Illustrated Road Book of Scotland London The Automobile Association 1963 203 https://archive.org/details/illustratedroadb0000vari_h9j0/page/315/mode/1up 1 14235713 There is a little fishing harbour at Slumbay, to the southwest of the village. en a. 1966 David Ernest Tomlinson Bell Lost by Loch Eil P. Blane; S. J. Hourston; J. B. Gambles The Highway ManA Selection of His Cycling Articles Reprinted from the “Ayrshire Post” and Incorporating Additional Unpublished Material Ayr, Ayrshire The Ayrshire Post 1970 78 https://archive.org/details/highwayman0000davi/page/78/mode/1up 316206682 Passing the North Strome hostel I came by Slumbay to Lochcarron village, that used to be known as Jeantown. en 1968 William Hutchison Murray Loch Carron and Applecross The Companion Guide to the West Highlands of Scotland: The Seaboard from Kintyre to Cape Wrath London Collins 286 https://archive.org/details/companionguideto0000murr_u3b8/page/286/mode/1up 18885 At the south-west end, where the road branches off to Applecross, Loch Carron runs into the twin village of Slumbay, which has a good harbour. en 1982 Drive 11: Lochcarron 91 miles Barry Francis Scotland: Where to Go, What to Do Basingstoke, Hampshire The Automobile Association 234 https://archive.org/details/scotlandwheretog0000unse/page/234/mode/1up 1 0 86145 104X The drive starts from the attractive village of Lochearron, which lines the shore of Inner Loch Carron. An unclassified road to the south-west leads past the small fishing harbour at Slumbay to Stromemore, where there are the ruins of Strome Castle. en 2000 Gerald M. Ruzicki; Dorothy A. Ruzicki Strome Castle In Search of Ancient Scotland: A Guide for the Independent Traveler Mead, Wash. Aspen Grove Publishing chapter 7 (Skye and the Northwest Highlands) 184 https://archive.org/details/insearchofancien0000ruzi/page/184/mode/1up 0-9664496-0-6 Follow the A896 to the village of Lochcarron. A minor road heads southwest, following the north shoreline of Loch Carron. This road leads through the village of Slumbay and eventually past the castle. en 2001 Robin Smith LOCHCARRON, Dalchuirn & Slumbay Alan Lawson The Making of Scotland: A Comprehensive Guide to the Growth of its Cities, Towns and Villages Edinburgh w:Canongate Books 615 https://archive.org/details/makingofscotland0000smit/page/615/mode/1up 2 1 84195 170 6 Hut circles on the hillsides above Loch Carron in Wester Ross tell of life long before the nearby coastal crofting and inshore fishing communities grew around the sheltered natural harbour of Slumbay. en 2006 David Munro; Bruce Gittings Lochcarron Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscape London Collins 309 https://archive.org/details/scotlandencyclop0000munr/page/309/mode/1up 1 0 00 777352-8 A village in Wester Ross, Lochcarron lies on the natural harbour of Slumbay on the northern shore of Loch Carron, 2 miles (3 km) northeast of its mouth. References Further reading Slumbay w:Gazetteer for Scotland 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20121022105251/http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1816.html Slumbay Harbour Etymology 2 en slum Bombay (the city's former name) with influence from en bay, especially in later use with en Mumbai. Proper noun en derogatory en @derogatory name for:Mumbai megacity/capital s/Maharashtra c/India. en Slumbai en 1 June 1996 w:John Gittings Slum dwellers of Bombay stand their ground w:The Guardian London 16 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/260845011/ 5 0261-3077 8082962 But the migrants are feared as the reputed source of crime and instability. There are warnings that “Bombay will become Slumbay”. 10 May 2005 Brian Hutchinson Leaving ‘Slumbay’: Vancouver’s Minaean hopes its steel-built homes will give hope to Mumbai’s slum dwellers 7 166 FP7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/515267958/ 1 To compete for international trade, many Indian politicians insist, Mumbai needs to transform itself from “Slumbay” into a showpiece. en 2008 Darshini Mahadevia; Harini Narayanan Slumbay to Shanghai: Envisioning Renewal or Take Over? Darshini Mahadevia Inside the Transforming Urban Asia: Processes, Policies and Public Actions New Delhi Concept Publishing Company 95 and 126 978-81-8069-574-2 Before the 2004 May elections, some prominent citizens of the city had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Mumbai High Court asking the election commissioner to disenfranchise the slum dwellers arguing that if they were living illegally, they could not be considered legal citizens of the city and therefore could not be eligible to vote. This was a move to label the dwellers of Slumbay as illegal (and hence criminals) and by that question the citizenship rights of a large section of city’s population. In the last fifty years of city’s development, from being a dream city it has become Slumbay, a city becoming more and more hostile to the migrant population, particularly low income ones and the poor. en 2009 Dawn Burton Distribution Cross-cultural Marketing: Theory, Practice and Relevance Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 124 https://archive.org/details/crossculturalmar0000burt/page/124/mode/1up 978-0-415-44893-2 For example, Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is India’s financial and industrial capital and the fifth most populated city. Home to a global elite, property prices in the centre are extremely high. Among the obvious affluence, there is significant poverty with over half the city’s population living in slums. This situation has earned the city the name of ‘Slumbay’. on en 2013 w:Daniel Brook Slumdogs and Millionaires: Bombay, 1991–Mumbai, Present A History of Future Cities New York, N.Y. w:W. W. Norton & Company 348–349 https://archive.org/details/historyoffuturec0000broo/page/349/mode/1up 978-0-393-07812-1 Just as the American census bureau’s pronouncement had shocked Cleveland, in 2011 an announcement from the Indian census bureau stunned Mumbai: the population of Mumbai island, it found, was in decline. While growth in the wider suburban region continued, the migratory tides lapping up against the man-made island city had reversed. Presumably word had reached village India that the glowing vision of Mumbai they saw in Bollywood movies didn’t stack up with “Slumbay” realities. en 2016 Igor Krstić Bombay Cinema Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums Edinburgh w:Edinburgh University Press part 2 (Local Expressions) 225 https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-53500/page/225/mode/1up 978 1 4744 0686 4 Yet even though the city’s majority population consists of slum-dwellers, they occupy merely 8 per cent of the city’s land. Mike Davis has therefore described Mumbai as ‘the global capital of slum dwellers’ (2007: 23), while some journalists nicknamed the city ‘Slumbay’ to hint at its melting-pot nature, in which extreme inequalities meet extreme scarcity of space. on