ghetto

[donogn]

What is a ghetto?

[dobbie]

A ghetto is a densly populated slum area of a city which is occupied by a socially and economically deprived minority

[Clanad]

Additionally... the term seems to originate as early as 12th century but became well known for the segregation and isolation of Jews under Nazi control or occupation, i.e: "Warsaw ghetto"...

[Romeo]

Originally the Jewish quarter of a city, later the black slum area of an American city, now often used to mean any poor, violent and rough area of a city.

[Bert]

The first ghetto was in Venice.  The word comes from the Italian (Venetian) 'gettare', (soft 'g'), to cast (as in casting metal) as there was a foundry in the area allocated to the Jews of Venice.  German and Austrians pronounced the word with a hard 'g', a pronunciation which stuck, so that's why the 'h' was inserted, to keep the 'g' hard.

[Peter Pedant]

and dont forget ghetto chambers!

These are lawyers' chambers who are occupied by the Black, Jewish or Roman Catholic barristers.

Fees arent any lower though