07/07/2022
Do you ever wonder they are called sneakers and not shoes?
It's because in the first book of his two-volume study about the circumstances of female inmates in England during the 19th century, Frederick Robinson refers to the guards' (matrons') shoes as "sneaks."
James Greenwood defined a sneaker as a shoe with an India-rubber sole and a canvas upper in his 1874 novel Strange Company.
The term "sneaker" for this type of shoe somehow crossed the Atlantic and arrived in North America. Henry Nelson McKinney, an advertising agent, is credited with coining the name "sneakers" in 1917 to describe how quiet the shoes were. This usage is a common one.
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