Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate Revisited

A bunch of road workers were having lunch right on top of this one of my favourite street signs, one fled leaving only his food and drink. His fellow workers continued eating and chatting, hence giving me one of my favourite holiday photos -

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate is the shortest street with the longest name in the wonderful city of York. There are different interpretations to its name, some say it's the place where miscreants were whipped, while others suggest its original medieval name was Whit-Nour-What-Nour-Gate meaning something like "Call that a street - you must be joking!". Ah, aren't words, languages, linguistics grand!