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06 Dec 02 - 11:21 AM (#842352) Subject: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Red and White Rabbit Since I changed jobs and have to drive to the desolate desert of Batley W.Yorks I pass by a watering hole daily - which I am sure is not a mirage. Being early in the morning ( 7.30am) I have never had the chance yet to stop and ask why is said oasis called WAPPY SPRING? Any suggestions? |
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06 Dec 02 - 01:22 PM (#842441) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Schantieman ...er... No. Not really. Is this a pub? Maybe it's some obscure bit of Yorky dialect that the 9Hull crowd can help us with? Steve |
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06 Dec 02 - 01:29 PM (#842447) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Schantieman Joh9n's never heard of it. |
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06 Dec 02 - 01:35 PM (#842456) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: GUEST,Hilary When I've heard Wappy used it's as in "He's gone wappy" meaning lost their temper. How a spring can go wappy ...... ? But in Chambers : Wap (1) ........ a fight/quarrel Wap (2) To wrap,bind. a turn of a string with which anything is bound. .... springs have to bound |
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06 Dec 02 - 01:58 PM (#842483) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Malcolm Douglas The Wappy Spring Inn at Lindley, presumably. There seems to be a Wappy Spring Farm as well. Wappy can mean strange, or silly; but I gather that (in the Huddersfield area at least) it can also mean fast, or refer to a short-cut. I don't know how accurate that is, but I expect they'd know in Lindley. |
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07 Dec 02 - 02:03 AM (#842870) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Cluin Shhhh... be vewwy quiet. I'm hunting a wappy little wabbit. huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh |
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07 Dec 02 - 03:22 PM (#843165) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Red and White Rabbit you'll never catch me - far too fly where I come from wappy means crazy but crazy spring didnt make much sense living in Longwood I have nothing to do with that Lindley Crowd!!! I would have thought it came under Birchencliffe or Mount ( back to bloody rabbits again) |
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07 Dec 02 - 03:24 PM (#843166) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Red and White Rabbit Forgot to mention - I hailed from Hull and so if it were 'ull dialect I think I would have known |
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07 Dec 02 - 05:30 PM (#843210) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Roughyed I see from the map that the inn is very near Wapping Nick Lane, so I suspect it is a corruption of Wapping Spring. I have no idea what Wapping means but it is a more familiar place name that Wappy. |
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07 Dec 02 - 05:39 PM (#843212) Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring From: Ned Ludd I was brought up in Salendine nook just down the road, and I was told by my Dad that the pub was named after the spring which it used to brew its beer. Alas- no longer, not in my drinking days though I did used to quaff Websters best there. In my Dad's day the beer there was of great renown! |