Does anyone else call flip-flops "thongs"?

[LegendZ]

My people call them slippers though. I haven't seen that mentioned in this thread yet.

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[psychomutt]

thongs are underwear for women

and a lot of people i know call them sandals

[Ipquarx]

why the forget would you call them anything other than sandals

But they aren't sandals. Sandals have a strap, flip-flops don't.
That's literally the only difference.

[Port]

But they aren't sandals. Sandals have a strap, flip-flops don't.
That's literally the only difference.

okay why would you call them anything other than sandals or flip-flops then

[ChickenMaster]

ITT: how dare you loving call these shoes anything other than what my culture has told me to call them

[psychomutt]

ITT: how dare you loving call these shoes anything other than what my culture has told me to call them

they're not shoes cigarettet

[Clone v.117]

Why are sandals called sandals? Why not flip-flops with straps?

[Ipquarx]

Why are sandals called sandals? Why not flip-flops with straps?

Sandals came first, so they kept their name.

Flip-flops were originally called sandals, but their name was changed becuse they made a flip-flop sound when you walked around in them. This does not happen with sandals because they have a strap. This is how you differentiate between the two.

OP's question still remains, why on EARTH would they be called a thong?

[Steve5451²]

My mom does.

[DiceyGrammar]

OP's question still remains, why on EARTH would they be called a thong?

Etymology online shows how it developed
thong (n.)
Old English þwong "thong, narrow strip of leather (used as a cord, band, strip, etc.)," from Proto-Germanic *thwangaz (cf. Old Norse þvengr), from PIE root *twengh- "to press in on, to restrain." As a kind of sandal, first attested 1965; as a kind of bikini briefs, 1990.

[TristanLuigi]

because you wear thongs on your feet, and a thong on your body

it's always used plural unless you for some reason have lost a thong out of your thongs

What next, are you going to start calling sneakers underwears? Are you going to call running shoes bras?

[Clone v.117]

Sandals came first, so they kept their name.

Flip-flops were originally called sandals, but their name was changed becuse they made a flip-flop sound when you walked around in them. This does not happen with sandals because they have a strap. This is how you differentiate between the two.

OP's question still remains, why on EARTH would they be called a thong?

Un-flip-flops then.

[DiceyGrammar]

What next, are you going to start calling sneakers underwears? Are you going to call running shoes bras?

read my edited post, "As a kind of sandal, first attested 1965; as a kind of bikini briefs, 1990."

It's no different than short being a measure of length or distance, and shorts being something you wear. unless you're handicapped, it's pretty basic.

[Menen]

I have never heard them called thongs before.

When i Google thongs i only get underwear. A vast majority call them flip-flops. However i know that in Hawaii they call them "slippahs"

[Clone v.117]

A vast majority call them flip-flops.

This is clearly relating to the footwear and nothing else.