Worple

Harrison Hill

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Oct 17, 2013, 3:41:39 AM10/17/13

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I would be grateful if anyone can confirm (or refute) this definition. "Worple" is a very common SE England road name:

Worple Road (Worple, Whapple or Warple) means a bridle path often one connecting villages...

John Briggs

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Oct 17, 2013, 6:08:31 AM10/17/13

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On 17/10/2013 08:41, Harrison Hill wrote:
> I would be grateful if anyone can confirm (or refute) this definition. "Worple" is a very common SE England road name:
>
> Worple Road (Worple, Whapple or Warple) means a bridle path often one connecting villages...

Yes, it means 'bridleway' - OE *werpels [the asterisk means the word
isn't actually attested - but there's no doubt about it.]
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LFS

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Oct 17, 2013, 6:25:19 AM10/17/13

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On 17/10/2013 08:41, Harrison Hill wrote:

> I would be grateful if anyone can confirm (or refute) this definition. "Worple" is a very common SE England road name:
>
> Worple Road (Worple, Whapple or Warple) means a bridle path often one connecting villages...
>

It's certainly reasonably common in SW London but I'm not sure how far
it extends. I thought that Worple Way in Wimbledon was said to be a
corruption of Walpole. BICBW.

OED says, under warple:

Forms: 15 pl. warpelles, warples, 16 whaple, 16– whapple, 18 wapple,
waffel, warple, worple, wopple.
Etymology: Of obscure origin; perhaps repr. an Old English *wyrpel or
*wierpel < the root of warp v. Compare the place-name Warplesdon (Surrey).

A green lane, a bridle-road. Chiefly in comb. warple-road,
warple-way; warple-gate n. a gate on a bridle-road ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).

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Iain Archer

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Oct 17, 2013, 6:50:02 AM10/17/13

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LFS wrote on Thu, 17 Oct 2013 at 11:25:19 GMT

>On 17/10/2013 08:41, Harrison Hill wrote:
>> I would be grateful if anyone can confirm (or refute) this
>>definition. "Worple" is a very common SE England road name:
>>
>> Worple Road (Worple, Whapple or Warple) means a bridle path often one
>>connecting villages...
>>
>
>It's certainly reasonably common in SW London but I'm not sure how far
>it extends. I thought that Worple Way in Wimbledon was said to be a
>corruption of Walpole. BICBW.

Most likely only in "Way" instead of "Road".
http://www.wcraltd.co.uk/id18.html
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Harrison Hill

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Oct 17, 2013, 8:20:55 AM10/17/13

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Thanks everyone.

Mike L

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Oct 18, 2013, 6:52:53 AM10/18/13

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:50:02 +0100, Iain Archer <m...@privacy.net>
wrote:

Connoisseurs of mountaineering books, however, will know that the
search for the warple, and the extraction of its exegesis, was the
scientific justification for the Rum Doodle expedition.

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Jerry Friedman

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Oct 19, 2013, 1:34:17 PM10/19/13

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Was that the one where they needed a warple sword?

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Robert Bannister

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Oct 19, 2013, 7:07:57 PM10/19/13

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Excellent. I chortle in my joy.
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charles

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Oct 19, 2013, 6:17:30 PM10/19/13

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In article <l3ufqo$8g2$1...@news.albasani.net>,

no - that was "Vorple"

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John Briggs

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Oct 20, 2013, 8:23:24 AM10/20/13

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ITYM "vorpal"

<snicker-snack!>
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Nick Spalding

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Oct 20, 2013, 8:41:13 AM10/20/13

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John Briggs wrote, in <%WP8u.49786$gd4....@fx29.am4>
on Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:23:24 +0100:

Not to be confused with snickersnee.
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John Briggs

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Oct 20, 2013, 8:57:15 AM10/20/13

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Only by those who confuse Schenectady with Showaddywaddy...
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charles

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Oct 20, 2013, 9:35:50 AM10/20/13

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In article <%WP8u.49786$gd4....@fx29.am4>, John Briggs

yes, but you looked it up ;-)

John Briggs

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Oct 20, 2013, 10:30:00 AM10/20/13

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I only look up to check that what I am posting is correct: a strategy
that I would commend to you (and PTD).
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charles

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Oct 20, 2013, 10:39:37 AM10/20/13

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In article <INR8u.41540$jf3....@fx04.am4>,

yes, but Lewis Carroll's complete works are in another room - far too much
effort to get up and get it.

John Briggs

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Oct 20, 2013, 10:42:26 AM10/20/13

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You haven't really got the hang of this "computer" and "online" thing,
have you?
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charles

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Oct 20, 2013, 11:54:37 AM10/20/13

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In article <lZR8u.41543$jf3....@fx04.am4>, John Briggs

no - not at all.

Mike L

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Oct 20, 2013, 7:00:38 PM10/20/13

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Well, they certainly didn't gallumph back down the mountain.

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Robert Bannister

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Oct 20, 2013, 8:22:15 PM10/20/13

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But "Jabberwocky" is all over the Net in a variety of different
languages, and anyway, you shouldn't have brought it up if didn't know
how to spell it. It was a very mimsy thing to do. By the way, don't look
"mimsy" up in the Urban Dictionary.

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Mike L

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Oct 21, 2013, 6:22:35 PM10/21/13

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On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:22:15 +0800, Robert Bannister
<rob...@clubtelco.com> wrote:

>On 20/10/13 10:39 PM, charles wrote:

[...]

>> yes, but Lewis Carroll's complete works are in another room - far too much
>> effort to get up and get it.
>>
>
>But "Jabberwocky" is all over the Net in a variety of different
>languages, and anyway, you shouldn't have brought it up if didn't know
>how to spell it. It was a very mimsy thing to do. By the way, don't look
>"mimsy" up in the Urban Dictionary.

OT. My sister's Yorks in-laws use "mimsy" very effectively to mean
something like "twee, mincing, feeble". OED, I see, recognises it as
regional; but its first record postdates Alice. The Dict explains it
better than I do.

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Robert Bannister

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Oct 21, 2013, 8:46:51 PM10/21/13

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Now you mention it, I think I have heard it used that way, but I can't
remember where or who said it. I imagine your sister's in-laws would be
quite shocked at the Urban Dictionary's meaning.

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Richard Bollard

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Oct 22, 2013, 6:34:00 PM10/22/13

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Did you know: You can sing Jabberwocky to the tune of the British
Grenadiers.
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Robert Bannister

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Oct 22, 2013, 8:24:31 PM10/22/13

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Just one of the many things a gentle-person of learning needs to commit
to memory.

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John Briggs

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Oct 22, 2013, 9:00:03 PM10/22/13

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Only someone who had heard "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" would imagine
that it was possible to sing The Lord's Prayer to the tune of "Auld Lang
Syne". And no-one who had would have considered it advisable...
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Andrew Abernathie

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Nov 21, 2022, 3:54:44 PM11/21/22

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On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 8:00:03 PM UTC-5, John Briggs wrote:
> On 22/10/2013 23:34, Richard Bollard wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:00:38 +0100, Mike L <n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 07:07:57 +0800, Robert Bannister
> >> <rob...@clubtelco.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 20/10/13 1:34 AM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> >>>> On 10/18/13 4:52 AM, Mike L wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:50:02 +0100, Iain Archer <m...@privacy.net>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> LFS wrote on Thu, 17 Oct 2013 at 11:25:19 GMT
> >>>>>>> On 17/10/2013 08:41, Harrison Hill wrote:
> >>>>>>>> I would be grateful if anyone can confirm (or refute) this
> >>>>>>>> definition. "Worple" is a very common SE England road name:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Worple Road (Worple, Whapple or Warple) means a bridle path often one
> >>>>>>>> connecting villages...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>

> >>>>>>> It's certainly reasonably common in SW London but I'm not sure how Sup dozos
> John Briggs

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