Thread: What trips you up when reading books from different English-speaking countries?
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Old 01-15-2022, 12:21 AM   #102
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When I was living in Japan, they were zoris. When I moved back to the US, they were flip flops and people wondered what the hell I was talking about when I mentioned zoris.
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I believe that in New Zealand they are called jandals, apparently a contraction of "Japanese sandals" in one of those delightfully common misattributions.
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