We tend to take the vocabulary of boots and shoes for granted but there's a lot going on down there in the footwear department. From flip-flops to thigh-highs, and Docs to Crocs. You are invited to join me on this idiosyncratic meander through some of the boots'n'shoes that made our language what it is.

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