I'm Canadian and I'd generally refer to them as rubbing shoes.
You should probably get some that fit better
I'm Canadian and I'd generally refer to them as rubbing shoes.
Godammit
Daps is an old name for plimsolls. Not for trainers.UK here, trainers is the standard, although there is a term I remember from my youth, 'Daps'. Not sure young Brits would recognise that though, my niece and nephew had no idea what it meant when I used it recently to them. Any older BritERA ever use that too?
Orange only has one syllableOh-range or are-ange?
I have been saying are-ange all my life and someone pointed out to me that it was a strange way of pronouncing it(live in Ohio.)
I dunno man, why do we call football soccer and make up something else to call football?
We Americans are a strange bunch.
I've lived in California my whole life, up and down the state. I do know people who say sneakers, but tennis shoes is definitely way more common.
I have always thought it was really weird that everyone calls general-purpose athletic shoes "tennis" shoes. I like trainers too, but I like it's more a British term? I've never actually been around anyone who's used that term.
I have a friend who's in the Coast Guard and apparently they call them "go-fasts," and you must call them that. You're punished if someone catches you saying "sneakers" or "tennis shoes" or whatever. Very bizarre, it's kind of creepy that they dictate what you call common items like that (they also call pens "ink sticks," and I can't remember any others right now but there were a handful of others), but it's also hilarious they force everyone to speak like a child.
i've been calling them jimmies since the day i was born and i'll call them jimmies until i dieApparently some parts of the US call Sprinkles "Jimmies", which is much more ridiculous
Nobody calls them trainers or sneakers.
A trainer is somebody who trains people. A sneaker is somebody creeping around.
And just to settle this once and for all: the proper term is "running shoes"
Same in the UK, but just swap Sneaker for Trainer.I was born and raised in NJ and it's always been my understanding that plain white athletic shoes with laces are tennis shoes. And you also have running shoes, basketball shoes, skateboarding shoes, etc. But the catch-all term is sneakers.
Apparently some parts of the US call Sprinkles "Jimmies", which is much more ridiculous
This one actually killed me.
I'm in California (lived in the Bay Area and SoCal), who the fuck says Drinking Fountain??