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In Brazil, any kind of sports shoes is a "tenis".
by kawera 10y ago
In Brazil, any kind of sports shoes is a "tenis".
- maxerickson 10y ago"tennis shoe" has a pretty generic meaning in the US also.
- LyndsySimon 10y agoApparently that's quite regional. I was corrected a few weeks ago because I called a pair of cross-trainers "tennis shoes" - where that person was from "tennis shoes" is much more specific than I understand it.
- marssaxman 10y agoWhat region might that person have been from? I grew up calling them all "tennis shoes", though I don't think I ever met anyone who played tennis. "Sneakers" was a secondary term.
- LyndsySimon 10y agoI want to say they were from Philadelphia, but I'm not 100% sure.
- maxerickson 10y agoYep. http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_73.html http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_73....
- rmc 10y agoIn Ireland they are called "runners"
- elros 10y agoIn France, they're "baskets".
- glandium 10y agoIn France, they're both "baskets" and "tennis". https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaussure_de_sport https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaussure_de_sport
- tgfgvc 10y agoin Poland "adidasy" is often used for any kind of sport shoes