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Woolworth's/lived out on ...
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The narrator in a book (who lived in south Alabama), writing about his hometown says: There was the Bright Star Cafe, a Woolworth's, and a little Piggly-Wiggly grocery store. There was a house where bad girls lived out on Route Ten.
--- What do you think "Woolworth's" means here? Is it a supermarket like Walmart?
--- Does it mean they lived at Route Ten?
The narrator in a book (who lived in south Alabama), writing about his hometown says: There was the Bright Star Cafe, a Woolworth's, and a little Piggly-Wiggly grocery store. There was a house where bad girls lived out on Route Ten.
--- What do you think "Woolworth's" means here? Is it a supermarket like Walmart?
--- Does it mean they lived at Route Ten?
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Woolworth's is what we used to call a 'dime store' or 'five and dime': a retail chain of low-budget variety goods. No, they lived on Route 10, the highway with that number.
- Woolworth's is what we used to call a 'dime store' or 'five and dime': a retail chain of low-budget variety goods.
- No, they lived on Route 10, the highway with that number.
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Woolworth's is what we used to call a 'dime store' or 'five and dime': a retail chain of low-budget variety goods.
No, they lived on Route 10, the highway with that number.
No, they lived on Route 10, the highway with that number.
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I'm not sure I understand the difference between "at Route 10" and "on Route 10"? Maybe it's just the difference between BrE and AmE?
I'm not sure I understand the difference between "at Route 10" and "on Route 10"? Maybe it's just the difference between BrE and AmE?
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I don't think you can live 'at' Route 10 in BrE, either. It is not a point location.
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