[Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office

[Wilson Gray]

> "tennyshoes"

Exactly!

An Australian friend once told me, about forty years ago, that the
Aussie/Ozzy term is "sand shoes." That struck me as unlikely, but...

Youneverknow.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Feb 27, 2018, at 8:03 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > For some of us, all tennis shoes are sneakers, but not all sneakers are
> > tennis shoes.
>
> As illustrated for me by high-tops in particular.  Sneakers but definitely
> not tennis shoes.
> >
> > On Feb 26, 2018 11:06 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "She gets the 'whitest _sneakers_' award because she always has the
> whitest
> >> _tennis shoes_."
> >>
> >> This is the second time that I've come across the mixing of regional
> >> lexical-variants in a single sentence. I'm starting to lose sleep!😳
> >> --
> >> -Wilson
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> >> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> >> -Mark Twain
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-- 
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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