Oh is THAT why yanks call "bum bags" "fanny packs"??? I had always wondered that..... I don't understand the one about the sexuality and the cigs either...
AAAAHHHH - now I get you!
Yep, I smirk when I see a local girl at a shop with a Fanny name tag lol
But in Australia, another word for fanny, is "the front bum" .
Actually no they/we/I don't, sandles are called sandles in Australia. Pictured belowThongs, the rubber foot wear variety, have been around in Australia since 1956, and so has the Aussie word associated to them. However, the New Zealanders produced the first rubber versions, and called them jandles, their merging of two words, Japanese sandles. Which is where the idea came from, Japan....
The Americans stealing our words again, and then indoctrinating the world with their name for a piece of clothing that has commonly been around under one form, or another, ie the G string or loin cloth, for 1000's of years..... lol
But thong, was our word, associated to foot ware first .
Boy, didn't this thread go off topic. Must be a result of the cooler weather
Also, why do only the left Thong/flip flops, turn up lost at the beach ? It's never the right one........?
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Last edited by Skyhook; 11-11-2008 at 01:21 AM.