My husband Grew up in California he calls them Tennis shoes. I'm from Wisconsin and call them sneakers. He thinks that the word Sneaker is some old fashioned out of date word or only people from the Mid-West say "Sneakers". I wonder what do most people call them? Also can you tell us where you grew up to determine if it is really where you live that determines what you call them.
Anyone know the history if why we call them Sneakers...It is a wierd word
2007-08-14 07:25:36 · 7 answers · asked by jennifer P 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
-I still call my Nike's "Tennis Shoes"! I think the word "Sneakers" come from the fact that the shoes have rubber soles, so no one can hear you "sneak about" ha-ha! I grew up in Oklahoma. I am a 60's child! Good question!
2007-08-14 07:37:11 · answer #1 · answered by debra k 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tennis shoes and sneakers aren't the same thing.
2007-08-14 07:29:50 · answer #2 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to call them sneakers, now I call them tennis shoes. I am not sure when I switched., probably when I took up tennis in the mid sixties. I am from the SE (northcentral Florida). I am over fifty.
2007-08-14 07:34:11 · answer #3 · answered by budrow54 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tennis shoes
2016-03-16 23:23:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually say both "tennis shoes" and "sneakers". To me, those words are interchangeable.
I find that the older I get, I more often call them running shoes.
I grew up in Ohio and Indiana.
2007-08-14 08:37:34 · answer #5 · answered by YSIC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I call mine tennis shoes--I grew up in Kansas and Oklahoma---I always thought sneakers was an old fashioned word, too.
2013-09-28 17:37:25 · answer #6 · answered by Kristi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sneakers. New York.
And if you didn't have the P.F. Flyers, man, you couldn't do nuthin'!
2007-08-14 07:29:37 · answer #7 · answered by Jed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up in St. Louis and I always called them tennis shoes.
2007-08-14 07:31:52 · answer #8 · answered by Godlover 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋