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Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate

Posted on May 10, 2006 at 12:37

Number one in a series of probably at least two “Great Street Signs of the World”.

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate is the name of a very small street in the city of York, England. In York, “Gate” means “Street”, but “Bar” means “Gate” (as in “city gate”). It is probably something to do with those Vikings.