Here's the UK version
I'm from just South of Edinburgh and I've never, ever heard of them being called baffies.
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Tennis shoes? Really?
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I'm from just South of Edinburgh and I've never, ever heard of them being called baffies.
I think it also depends on what part of culture you engage with. The ones I know on that are very accurate.
And trainers are what you wear on your feet when you're training. Do people do lots of sneaking in theirs?
Honestly I've never heard anyone here call them anything other than trainers. In 35 years, from old folk or from young.
Surely a tennis shoe is something yuo play tennis in, and a sneaker is something you sneak around in?
So they are all dumb.
I live in Tennessee and call them Sneakers unless they're for running, then they're Running Shoes.
I was going to say "Where in Missouri have you heard 'soda' instead of 'pop' but then I saw that heatmap-style map a few posts after yours and it's everything outside of the KC-area that uses 'soda,' so I guess that makes sense why I never heard it there. I was a 'pop' guy until I started living in the South and then switched to 'soda.'Born in Chitown. We indeed called them "Gym Shoes" growing up. Moved to Missouri and they say "Tennis shoes" and call pop "Soda".
And lol at people in here from different countries in Europe saying they get called 'tennis shoes' there as well. So this obviously isn't some "America, you use a dumb name" thing; it's more a case of "England, why do you keep creating silly words for stuff?"
Sneakers, running shoes, gym shoes, tennis shoes (which I use a lot, but I recognize them as being more of a low-cut shoe as opposed to basketball shoes/hi-tops)... I'm fine with any of those. Calling them "trainers" is hilarious though.
While I am surprised to find out its a purely northeastern thing to use the term 'sneakers' - I am more fascinated that there are two separate pockets of people who call water fountains... bubblers?
Here's the UK version
It doesn't have anything for East Anglia but I've never heard the terms kicks, creps or bockers used here, just trainers. Tbh I've never actually heard any of these used apart from trainers.
The word "sneaker" is never used in any context besides shoes. Nobody says "A sneaker broke into my house last night."
The purpose of communication is to be understood, not to be accurate. "Tennis shoes" and "sneakers" are both words that have no contextual meaning at all besides referring to shoes.
I've always called them sneakers. Not that that makes particularly more sense, but tennis shoes just sounds dumb since no one I know plays tennis.
Maryland here.
Maryland here.
Here's the UK version
This looks like people in the UK competing for the most British sounding term for 'shoe' they can come up with.
You must not be from the south then lol
Coke is the universal name for soda here.
KY definitely says pop instead of Coke lol
Same but its more like 'tenny shoes". I call them sneakers when I think about it.
Maybe. But it is noticeable that several people in this thread have disagreed with the map.
Grew up in Milwaukee and have lived in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Indiana, and Massachusetts.
I've heard people say tennis shoes and sneakers in every state. I honestly didn't think that anyone would give either term a second thought?
I've also heard "basketball shoes" and "kicks" but not from a gym teacher or anything.
I've heard people say tennis shoes and sneakers in every state. I honestly didn't think that anyone would give either term a second thought?
I've also heard "basketball shoes" and "kicks" but not from a gym teacher or anything.
But I can also vouch that North West specifically Liverpool and Manchester are on point as is Yorkshire but London's a bit dated. Things like creps and kicks are common all over.
I must confuse the shit outta people because outside of saying "y'all", I don't line up with any of that map.
Born and raised in Oklahoma. It was ALWAYS Tennis Shoes.
Though I always pronounce it as "Tenni-shoes".
Though I always pronounce it as "Tenni-shoes".
Been sneakers, kicks, or gators here since I was 7 or 8. I am familiar with the term tennis shoes but never heard a person actually say it.
Lol as someone from Chicago, it's gym shoes.
Though I say sneakers too.
Ive never heard them called tennis shoes.
Though I say sneakers too.
Ive never heard them called tennis shoes.
Zapatillas is how I call them here in Peru, slang for shoes in general is "tabas".
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I call shoes by what they're used for. Walking shoes, running shoes, athletic shoes, dress shoes, etc. And "casual shoes" for any kind of shoes without a specific purpose.
When I hear "tennis shoes", I see all-white athletic shoes with a fairly flat sole and a low top, as in:
FWIW, I'm Canadian, though I don't think that has any bearing on my preferred terminology. I just like to be specific.
Exact same here, also Canadian.
Weird. This checks out for me I guess. I'm a Floridian and I always call them sneakers, but most people around me in Florida interchanged that and tennis shoes pretty equally.