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I checked the loc_name tag (local name, often used for nicknames) on OpenStreetMap and found that it was the faintly racist "Arabfly Dangleway", which I doubt anyone really used even when Emirates were the sponsor. It's now just "Dangleway".

Discussions of edits on OSM tend to be a bit more civilised than on Wikipedia.

Rob | 08.11.23 - 1:37 p.m. | #

Thanks for changing that.

Yes, that started here too.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.11.23 - 1:42 p.m. | #

Bravo!!

scrumpy | 08.11.23 - 1:54 p.m. | #

As far as I can tell, Buttons0603 is just a normal editor and is not and never has been a Wikipedia administrator. Unlike certain other editors of the article around that time.

dg writes: updated thanks.

Since 2015 there has been a redirect at wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dangleway

Andrew | 08.11.23 - 2:30 p.m. | #

With the internet it must be a nightmare finding the origin of any new word, especially as the internet is itself always being reconfigured and the original source can disappear.

You have a perverse incentive to see it survive.

Still Anon | 08.11.23 - 4:44 p.m. | #

Google Maps knows about the Dangleway, and homes in on the Royal Docks terminal.

Apple Maps offers me two choices of "Daneway".

miker | 08.11.23 - 5:41 p.m. | #

Mentioning that it's a nickname was a smart move as it's unequivocally true. Google even brings it up in its sponsored results which I'd say makes it an established term. Bing (I know!) has a top result from Wikipedia, which is a bit circular, but also references it elsewhere.

Andrew S | 08.11.23 - 6:06 p.m. | #

Next stop the OED*, then you've arrived!

* Oxford English Dictionary

Ken | 08.11.23 - 11:23 p.m. | #

My children know it as the dangleway, as introduced to them by my wife, who isn't even a regular reader here.

When Boris was still trying to drum up support for building it (2010 or 2011 I suppose), he said in a few interviews he was going to name it for the then Business Secretary, Vince Cable. It's a shame he didn't at least get to officially open it or something.

martin | 09.11.23 - 7:03 a.m. | #

Excellent stuff.

Cornish Cockney | 09.11.23 - 11:55 a.m. | #











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