05 juli, 2007

Flip-Flop

Jag tror detta innebär att jag haft en för bra semester (flip-flop skav):


Btw, kärt barn har många namn:

In Brazil they
are known as sandalhas or chinelos
In Czech republic and in Slovakia they
are known as žabky (translated means frogs)
In Ghana they are known as chale
wotes
In Gibraltar they are known as
shanklas (from Spanish chanclas)
In Australian English
these are known as thongs.
In Canada they are known as flip
flops.
In Estonia they are known as
plätud.
In French they are known as
tongues.
In Philippines they are known
as tsinelas.
In Hawaii, flip-flops are known as
slippers or slippas.
In India, similar sandals are known
as chappals.
Some kinds of chappals are made of leather, and some have a strap
over the big
toe
. They are also called Sawan.
In Italy, they are called infradito ,
literally inter-toes.
In Jamaica, they are known as
slippers or sandals.
In Malawi they are known as "ma
slippas" or "ma pata pata".
In Malaysia, they are known as
selipar jepun, literally "Japanese slippers"
In Micronesia they are known as
Zorries.
In New Zealand English
they are known generically as jandals.
In Pakistan they are known as
chappals, qainchey chappals or Hawaiian chappals
In Poland they are known as
"Japonki" which literally translated means "Japanese women", but its real
meaning is simply "The Japanese"
In Sri Lanka they are known as
Bata, after the name of the most popular flip-flop brand in the country Bata.
In Trinidad &
Tobago
they are known as Slippers
In Uganda they are known as
Makambos
In the United States, they are
generally known as flip-flops, go-aheads, thongs, and zories
In the United States Army,
they are known as shower-shoes
In the United States Navy,
they are known as go-slowers (a play on "go-fasters", the Navy term for running
shoes)
In Israel, they are known as
כפכפי-אצבע (transliterated into English: kafkafey-etsba, meaning toe
slippers
In The Netherlands, they
are known as teenslippers
In Flanders, they are known as
teensletsen
In Argentina, they are known as
ojotas.
In El Salvador, they are known
as yinas and chancletas.

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