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To: markomalley

I’m surprised that Woolworth’s, which disappeared from the US decades ago, has stores in Germany. If the Germans pronounce “Woolworth’s” as though it were a German name, it would sound considerably different than it does in English.


43 posted on 11/23/2016 5:40:08 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Here’s the Wiki on Woolworths; interesting that it began to die when it got away from its ‘roots’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company


46 posted on 11/23/2016 5:48:21 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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