On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 20:43:08 +0000 (UTC), "Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at
yahoo.com (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

> Funny thing about that as I remember, when I was a child, the term 'thongs' was exclusively used, AFAIK, for footwear here in the USA.'Slides' was a synonym.I wasn't till decades later that the term came into use for swimwear.

And when I was a kid, that same footwear was mostly called 'zoris'
(zah-reez) in my area.

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>    On Monday, December 9, 2019, 12:53:48 PM MST, Ewan <xxxxxx@quibell.org.uk> wrote:
> > After doing the professionally-needed stuff, she was chatting with the
>> guy on the other end and mentioned she had had to chuck some thongs on
>> before jumping out of the ute - she later reckoned she could _hear_ the
>> poor sod blush.  As sis later put it, "That's when I found out that I
>> was talking South West Pacific English about footwear and the poor bloke
>> on the other end was listening in North East Pacific English about undies"
>
>Yup, got to love the Aussie ladies dispensing Durex while wearing thongs .. I mean who wouldn’t?
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