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Subject: [SoG] Gentlemen
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:49:19 EDT


Dave Watkins wrote, "During WW2, when most sign posts and location names were
removed to baffle
German paratroopers, most British railway stations advertised themselves as
"Gentlemen" ! <G>

My father told me that in WW1 most French railway stations were called
"Hommes", no "femmes" there either.

Bill Firth, the Yorkshireman in London.

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