JUst bought a new pair of sneakers, love them. Do you call them sneakers, mostly people in the northeastern part of the US call them that
No, I call them tennis shoes but phonetically it sounds more like tenny shoes.
Sneakers
Sneakers (also called trainers, athletic shoes, tennis shoes, gym shoes, sport shoes or runners) are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise, but which are now also widely used for everyday wear. The term generally describes a type of footwear with a flexible sole made of rubber or synthetic material and an upper part made of leather, synthetic substitutes or cloth.
Names and etymology.
The shoes have gone by a variety of names, depending on geography, and changing over
, Jerry receives a call from a man who has bought a pair of his sneakers and is informed that Mom and Pop are selling them in a garage sale in Parsippany, New Jersey. Jerry and Kramer decide to head there and confront Mom and Pop, but as Jerry's car is in the shop they take the bus instead. On their way to New Jersey, Kramer's nose starts bleeding again, in a scene parodying "Midnight Cowboy".
Origin.
Part of this episode was inspired by events that