Timeline for Is the term "wellington boots" commonly used in America?
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 7:02 | comment | added | Peter | @choster Interestingly, in Poland the rubber rain boots are called "kaloshe." As for the ill-drained sidewalks, in resent years rubber boots have become trendy, and I noticed many women, girls wear them even if the weather isn't exactly rainy, not to mention that small kids love them for their colors and slick rubber surface, based on my experience every kindergarten kid in my town has a pair. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 20:05 | comment | added | choster | @Mitch AmE, bicoastal, b. 1975. Duck boots I'm familiar with; they were de rigeur even in college in the grungy '90s, though I usually wore winter hiking boots to class. The WP article seems to cover the footwear you describe; I've never seen or heard of such things. Sesame Street, for what it's worth, still uses the term to refer to rubber boots, not rubber overshoes. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 19:53 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
better formatting, extra explanation
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| Dec 29, 2016 at 19:44 | comment | added | Mitch | @choster Are you a primarily AmE or BrE speaker/culture? I use 'galoshes' (I've heard as a synonym for 'rubbers', which word is also polysemically/amphbolistically a synonym for the tabooistical/snickerrific 'condom') for slightly elastic rubber shoe covers, things you temporarily slide over your regular shoes, and pull off when you go back inside without having to change your regular day shoes into we weather ones. Those things, galoshes, I haven't seen since the 70's though. Boots (and also duck boots) are as common as ever. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 19:26 | comment | added | choster | The first I would refer to as galoshes, although apparently in Britain this is something else, and I know that term only from Sesame Street. Admittedly, while I have lived in some wet parts of the U.S., I have never lived any place where sidewalks were so lacking or ill-maintained and the roads so ill-drained that they would be justified. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 18:52 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2016 at 17:32 | vote | accept | Peter | ||
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| Dec 29, 2016 at 17:16 | comment | added | user140086 | I think you can include the comment in the answer. Why not? Happy New year! | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 17:13 | comment | added | Mitch | I'm from the US and had never heard the term 'wellington boots' before this question, but had heard of 'wellies' to refer to waterproof boots by UKers. I grew up with both the term and thing called 'duck boots'. Also regular old boots, waterproof or not. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 17:11 | history | answered | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |