[CVALE] What the?: Slackware

[Gaijin]

     Hello Slack users,

     Got a strange one.  I have a bunch of aliases, and I can't see 
where they came from.  I was planning on doing something like:

     source ~/.aliases

in the .bashrc file.  I've pretty much gotten rid of everything in the 
home dir...moved everything to a dir called "storage".  I logout and 
then log back in, and my aliases are back...with no shell config files 
present.  Weird.  Anyone know where the things are being set so I can 
get rid of them and use my own?  .bashrc doesn't seem to work either. 
Tried adding:

     echo 3 > /proc/speakup/rate

to slow things down, but I guess bash doesn't see it.  TIA,

         Michael

I must be too used to Debian.