kennykravitz , 15 days ago

Near me in Sheffield there is a well-known footpath between the Ecclesall Road area and Harrow called Frog Walk. I, and I think most people, always assumed it was so-named because of its proximity to the Porter Brook river and, therefore, frogs.

However, the real origin of the name is actually far more interesting from a linguistic standpoint.

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#Sheffield
#Linguistics
#etymology
#dialect
#Yorkshire
#English

A newspaper cutting in answer to a query about how Frog Walk got its name. It refers to an article in the Sheffield Telegraph in 1933 in which most readers reported that "There were two walks. The one first built was known as The Old Walk which in local dialect became T'Owd Walk and eventually Toad Walk, and the later one, named by association, was Frog Walk."