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Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate
Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate is one of the smallest streets in York, if not the smallest. It is between Colliergate and Fossgate and intersects The Pavement and The Stonebow in York city centre. It is currently a length of raised pavement between St Crux church hall and a small road junction.
The origin of the name is unclear. "Gate" derives from the Norse word "gatta" meaning street.〔“Many of the street names (as with Friargate in the city of Derby) end in ‘…gate’; this is a corruption of the Viking ‘gatta’ or ‘street’.”()〕 A plaque erected in the street states that it derives from a phrase ''Whitnourwhatnourgate'' meaning "What a street!", but most modern sources translate the phrase as "Neither one thing nor the other".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inside York )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Britannia Tours )〕 The city's whipping post and stocks were here in the middle ages, which may have influenced the change to the modern spelling and has certainly provided an alternative folk etymology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sunderland Street Name project (introductory text refers to Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate as "named after a whipping post and pillory"). )〕
''Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma'' is the title of a novel by York author Martyn Clayton.
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