“Sneakers” Or “Tennis Shoes”?
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Did we really need another thing to tear this country apart? The Internet is having a big debate over what people call the shoes they exercise in: Sneakers . . . tennis shoes . . . or something else?
There are lots of famous debates about what people in different regions call different things . . . like “soda” versus “pop” and “sub” versus “hoagie.” But one of those debates really just started heating up this week on Twitter.
According to a study by Harvard, 45.5% of people call them “sneakers,” mostly in the northeast . . . 41.3% call them “tennis shoes” . . . and the rest use other terms like “gym shoes” or just plain “shoes.”
Apparently, though, a lot of people had no idea there was any other term than the one they used . . . so the reactions on social media are trending toward disbelief. 
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Like some, I have become obsessed with golf and you can hear all about that on “The Ball Washer Pod” right here on WCSX. One of my other passions is helping out the Vets. Since coming to WCSX I have been apart of raising hundreds of thousands for local vet groups. Other than that, I am a goofy guy, loving life, my family and talking to you on the radio. Ryan writes about golf, family and what happens on “Big Jim’s House.”
