Tenny Runners (tennis shoes) (1965)

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Tenny Runners (or Tennie Runners)
 
Tenny (or tennie) runners are tennis shoes. The term is said to be used in  
Texas, but is also popular in many other states. 


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Tenny  Runners 
A pair of athletic shoes 

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From:  Mark J. Cintala 
Date:   Sun, Jul 21 1996 12:00 am 

Geez.  This *is* a neat thread.  
I’m from PA, now living in TX.  I know you wonderful RFC folks will find  it 
in your hearts to forgive me if I’m kind of immune to some stuff involving  
pronunciation.  I won’t get started on the Texas dialect, but I will  deposit 
these as I go: 
UMbrella, INsurance, tenny runners (if you don’t know  what they are, I can’
t say I blame you—I was agog when I found out, myself).  

How to Talk American 
by Jim Crotty 
Boston: Houghton  Mifflin Company 
1997 
Pg. 342: 
tenny runners: any pair of  athletic shoes. What are called “tennises” in 
northern Florida. 

18 July  1965, Tri-City Herald (Pasco, Kennewick, Richland, WA), pg. 18 ad:  
Tennie Runners. 

8 September 1967, Modesto (CA) Bee, pg. A7:  
The women, looking somewhat more professional, wore their tenny runners,  
black slacks and blouses, and pink vests—bearing the name of their sponsor, the  
Edd Tide Lounge. 

12 December 1971, Tri-City Herald (Pasco,  Kennewick, Richland, WA), pg.  7: 
Or, every man in his tastes, opined  the little old lady from Boistfort, who 
fancies tenny runners, as she kissed the  nearby Pe Ell bovine by name Bessy.  

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