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Re:How many High Streets are there in London? by YurgenJurgensen on Monday June 10, 2024 @09:31AM (#40633491)
You mean a back-formation. "Warf" as "warehouse at river front" is a backronym, it totally has the same feeling as those other famous nonsense backronyms like "fornication under consent of king" or "port out starboard home".

...except that "wharf" has an 'h' in it, so it's not even a backronym.

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Re:How many High Streets are there in London? by adolph on Monday June 10, 2024 @12:59PM (#40635598)
Yes, a back-formation of the sur-name “Warf” into an acronym for “warehouse…” Is it known if the buildings were never owned by or associated with someone or a family named “Warf?”
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Re:How many High Streets are there in London? by MarcusE1W on Monday June 10, 2024 @02:41PM (#40636719)
Warf was a typo. The Warehouses are called Wharf.
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Re:How many High Streets are there in London? by adolph on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:34PM (#40638667)
Oh, ok, my next conjecture would have been the involvement of a Star Trek TNG aficionado. (Albeit with an o->a typo)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worf

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