Talk:Siping

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] John Sipe

This origin may well be true, but I think the word sipe has an older dialectal origin in the UK. I'm investigating this, but meanwhile does anyone know about John Sipe?
His name appear on various websites, but if the story is not an urban legend, there will be a patent for siping registered in the 1920s
It is possible, but unlikely, that both origins of the word are correct, but it would be a stange coincidence. dbfirs 10:19, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Since the word sipe has been common in the English language as a verb for over a thousand years (and as a noun for even longer) (OED), I believe that the John Sipe origin is someone's joke which has spread as an urban myth. I propose to note this fact and this opinion (with NPoV) in the entry. Does anyone disagree? dbfirs 09:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)