Tenny runners...

[Joanne M. Despres]

I grew up calling a rubber band an "elastic" -- though I changed my
ways when a friend from the metropolitan NYC area set me straight
about the proper term for the thing.  (I was much more
impressionable back then.)

Joanne



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> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:09:22 -0400
> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject: Re: Tenny runners...
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
> >
> >As usual, Charlie, you've resurrected for me a bit of lexicon that I'd
> >lost. Overshoes! Whoa, does that bring back memories! BTW, my
> >grandparents referred to rubber bands as "elastics." Does that ring a
> >bell with you?
> >
> >-Wilson
>
>
> >
> >On 9/22/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> >> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >> Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> >> Subject:      Re: Tenny runners...
> >>
>
> >> When I was in (about) the fifth grade, the spelling textbook gave the word "rubbers," with the illustrative sentence (something like) "John lent Bill his rubbers."  Many yucks from the pubescent philologues--though we did divine that the reference was to what are properly (in East Texas)
called "overshoes."
> >>
> >> --Charlie
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