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Old Oct 16th 2011, 6:29 pm
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Originally Posted by tamms_1965
I've never heard anyone say sneakers either. We always called them gym shoes in the 70s and 80s. Sometimes you would say track shoes/basketball/tennis shoes/etc. if that's what their specific purpose was.
Maybe an east coast thing? Everyone here calls them sneakers.
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Old Oct 16th 2011, 6:33 pm
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Maybe an east coast thing? Everyone here calls them sneakers.
My wife's family are all from California and refer to them as sneakers.
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Old Oct 16th 2011, 6:34 pm
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Default Re: American words/expressions you don't like
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
Stomach flu.
Maybe "stomach flu" is a shortened form of "stomach flux" ?? In other words unrelated to flu which is short for influenza
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Old Oct 16th 2011, 7:27 pm
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Default Re: American words/expressions you don't like
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Maybe an east coast thing? Everyone here calls them sneakers.
A lot of people do down here too. Makes no bloody sense at all.
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Originally Posted by robin1234
Maybe "stomach flu" is a shortened form of "stomach flux" ?? In other words unrelated to flu which is short for influenza
I've never heard of flux referred to as flu, has anyone?
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Old Oct 16th 2011, 7:59 pm
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Default Re: American words/expressions you don't like
Originally Posted by tamms_1965
I've never heard anyone say sneakers either. We always called them gym shoes in the 70s and 80s. Sometimes you would say track shoes/basketball/tennis shoes/etc. if that's what their specific purpose was.
Originally Posted by Bob
Maybe an east coast thing? Everyone here calls them sneakers.
Originally Posted by cluedweasel
My wife's family are all from California and refer to them as sneakers.
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
A lot of people do down here too. Makes no bloody sense at all.
No surprise there...

Anyway,

http://forum.thewordnerds.org/viewtopic.php?t=162
http://www.democraticunderground.com...ss=105x2687033
http://www.ehow.com/about_6710571_di...-sneakers.html
http://www.jstor.org/pss/454615
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Default Re: American words/expressions you don't like
Originally Posted by robin1234
Maybe "stomach flu" is a shortened form of "stomach flux" ?? In other words unrelated to flu which is short for influenza
It sounds thick though and makes no sense.
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Default Re: American words/expressions you don't like
Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
I've never heard of flux referred to as flu, has anyone?
No, but given the habit we Americans have of omitting "important" letters from various words, maybe the "x" was accidentally dropped?
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Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
That being the case, it would hardly be surprising that one member in particular might feel the unnecessary need to defend it.
What's the difference between "defense" and "explanation"?
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Old Oct 17th 2011, 12:54 pm
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Default Re: American words/expressions you don't like
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
It sounds thick though and makes no sense.
Yeah but "flux" is an old word for diarrhea so "flu" could be a euphemism, in the case of "stomach flu."..
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Old Oct 17th 2011, 1:18 pm
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Default Re: American words/expressions you don't like
Originally Posted by robin1234
Yeah but "flux" is an old word for diarrhea so "flu" could be a euphemism, in the case of "stomach flu."..
Either way you spell it, nobody wants it!
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Old Oct 17th 2011, 2:31 pm
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Yeah but "flux" is an old word for diarrhea
Does that mean if you shit yourself in a DeLorian you go back in time
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Does that mean if you shit yourself in a DeLorian you go back in time
.. and can listen to Radio Four Longwave from Droitwich!
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Does that mean if you shit yourself in a DeLorian you go back in time
I got it, even if nobody else did.
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Old Oct 17th 2011, 2:37 pm
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I got it, even if nobody else did.
So you'll be out on ebay, bidding for the capacitor?
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