Thanks so much, K..

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Hi again, Lynda

Here are a couple of observations on the thread which you started, on the subject of words and slavery. That thread is a long way down the page, now. Perhaps you can find a way to make a link. If not, you could just file this away for future reference!

Mike gives an impressively long list of words ending in the suffix -ship. However, the word ship, when used is this way, does not refer to large seagoing vessels. Here's an excellent breakdown of how the suffix -ship works, and its origin.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/21168/is-there-any-relation-between-the-suffix-ship-and-actual-ships

Jordan Maxwell's equating of "berth" and "birth" is a little tricky. This is a bit (though not exactly) like the phenomenon of homophones, where words have the same pronunciation, but different spellings and meanings.

A few examples:
rain rein reign
sight site cite

pear pair pare
scene seen
male mail

The verb "to bear", which is the source of "birth", and probably also "berth", has quite a wide range of meanings.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bear

There is some uncertainty about the etymology of "berth", but the best suggestion I've seen is that it comes from the nautical meaning of "to bear", in the sense of changing course.
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/berth

So we have the interesting situation in which two words with almost the same spelling, and probably with the same derivation, still manage to have quite different meanings, and cannot be equated at all.

Regards,

K