When you and your friends delibrately shun somebody you "Send them to Coventry" UK Only? phrase ,Why was this? (I do not think there is anything on the Net on this)
Does your part of the World have a similar phrase? Different Town or City?

As far as I can remember, I haven't heard the phrase, or a similar one, used here.

This page offers 2 theories on the phrase's origin.

Word detective offers the same two theories.

I've often wondered about the (phrase?) "86'ed".It never made any sense to me.

Di - Merriam-Webster says "probably rhyming slang for nix." Etymology online and several other sites agree and add that it started as lunch-counter slang for something not available (not on the menu) or something not to be included (eighty-six the onions).

Thanks Methos, Like the language didn't get murdered badly enough without throwing something like this in!

I really appreciate your researching this for me.

We have other phrases related to places: 'shipshape and Bristol fashion' means smart and in perfect order, from the port of Bristol; 'it's Bedlam' means 'it's chaotic ( in a place), in total confusion' from Bedlam (Bethlehem) Hospital, London, for the insane; 'he's gone doolally' means he's temporarily insane, gone 'off his head' from the hospital at Deolali in India where mentally ill soldiers were sent to recover; 'to be in Carey Street' means to be bankrupt or very short of funds, from Carey Street , London, the address of the bankruptcy court;' go up to Bedfordshire' ( a direction to a child ) go to bed, from Beds being the abbreviation of that county's name; 'Billingsgate talk' for profane or obscene oathes and language , from the London fishmarket, renowned for the language of its fishwives; 'to meet one's Waterloo' to meet a decisive event, a show-down ( now usually meaning to lose then) , from the battle. Nouns include ' a Donnybrook' for an affray, from the village fair near Dublin and 'a Sloane' from 'Sloane Ranger' a well-off youngish woman, like the young Princess Diana, who dresses for the country when in town , from Sloane Square , Chelsea in London.