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Scrabble. It's All in a Name
In 1948, a man named James Brunot, or Brunot, who was a resident of Newtown, Connecticut, he bought a crisscross words. He asked if he could buy the rights to manufacture the game in exchange for giving Butts a royalty on every unit sold. Within a year, it had gone - but not because someone went bankrupt. In 1952, Jack Strass, who was the president of Macy's, played the game and loved it. Scrabble means "to scratch frenetically," which is odd that you named this game about having to scratch a lot.
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