{"id":35748,"date":"2019-03-19T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=35748"},"modified":"2019-03-19T12:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:50:20","slug":"chippy-lane-or-chip-alley-jack-whitehall-falls-foul-of-caroline-streets-naming-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/19\/chippy-lane-or-chip-alley-jack-whitehall-falls-foul-of-caroline-streets-naming-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chippy Lane or Chip Alley? Jack Whitehall falls foul of Caroline Street's naming debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congrats Wales. ?
\nCan you imagine the scenes on Chip Alley at 1am in the morning tonight. Carnage. ??<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jack Whitehall (@jackwhitehall) March 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The English stand-up was immediately inundated with hundreds of replies correcting it to \u2018<\/span>Chippy<\/span>\u00a0Lane\u2019.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nHe showed his quick-witted \u2018posh boy\u2019\u00a0<\/span>humour<\/span>\u00a0by joining in the banter.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I actually normally refer to it as \u2018frites boulevard\u2019 https:\/\/t.co\/IeQ17JilJc<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jack Whitehall (@jackwhitehall) March 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Off the back of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Mr<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Whitehall\u2019s tweets, people from in and around Cardiff jumped on the bandwagon.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve never heard Caroline Street called \u201cChippy Lane\u201d I\u2019ve heard \u201cChippy Alley\u201d about a million times, and Caroline Street a million times. But never chippy lane, yet people are correcting a tweet calling it Chippy Alley, what\u2019s the consensus? @thebarryhorns<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonny ??????? (@JonnyAlcoque) March 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Okay, the answer seems to change based on age, geography, and so on so let\u2019s settle it once and for all, what nickname would you call Caroline Street? ???????<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonny ??????? (@JonnyAlcoque) March 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jonny\u00a0<\/span>Alcoque<\/span>, 26, from Tonyrefail, told\u00a0<\/span>The\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Cardiffian<\/span><\/i>:\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u201c<\/span><\/i>I can\u2019t help but say\u00a0<\/span>\u2018<\/span>Chippy<\/span>\u00a0Alley<\/span>\u2019<\/span>, I can\u2019t even remember the first time I heard\u00a0<\/span>it<\/span>\u00a0but I\u2019ve only ever really heard it called that or Caroline Street.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u201cUpon asking people I work with today the consensus seems to be its a regional thing, with people from Cardiff referring to it as\u00a0<\/span>\u2018<\/span>Chippy<\/span>\u00a0Lane<\/span>\u2019<\/span>, and then as you leave and get to the valleys and Bridgend it becomes Alley.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u201cI think age is a factor as my grandparents from Cardiff only knew it as Caroline Street, and\u00a0<\/span>\u2018<\/span>C<\/span>hippy<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>L<\/span>ane\/<\/span>A<\/span>lley<\/span>\u2019<\/span>\u00a0was nonsense to them.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And then something shocking happened…<\/h3>\n

The Twitter mogul known as\u00a0<\/span>\u2018<\/span>Y Barry Horns<\/span>\u2019<\/span>\u00a0introduced a controversial new option to the debate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is the right name for Caroline Street in Cardiff?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Y Barry Horns (@thebarryhorns) March 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fez\u00a0<\/span>Watcyns<\/span>, 38, from\u00a0<\/span>Gabalfa<\/span>\u00a0(the man behind the Twitter account), said: \u201cI think the proper name is \u2018Chicken Road\u2019. It\u2019s more what the youngsters from\u00a0<\/span>Gabalfa<\/span>\u00a0call it. Old people sometimes call it something else.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u201cI think students from England call it \u2018<\/span>Chippy<\/span>\u00a0Alley\u2019, but they are obviously de facto wrong.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nA<\/span>nother\u00a0<\/span>curveball was also brought into the mix \u2013 with some traditionalists adamant that the street should only be called its official name, that \u2018true\u2019\u00a0<\/span>Cardiffians<\/span>\u00a0know it as, Caroline Street.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nOne tweeter said: \u201cWho calls it anything other than Caroline Street?! Ah, yes, people that don\u2019t come from Cardiff.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
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