Įarlier, the name "sneaks" had been used by prison inmates to refer to warders because of the rubber-soled shoes they wore. Someone wearing sneakers could "sneak up", while someone wearing standards could not. The word was already in use at least as early as 1887, when the Boston Journal made reference to "sneakers" as "the name boys give to tennis shoes." The name "sneakers" originally referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy standard hard leather sole dress shoes. In 1917, he used the term because the rubber sole made the shoe's wearer stealthy. The word "sneaker" is often attributed to American Henry Nelson McKinney, who was an advertising agent for N. Plimsolls (British English) are "low-tech" athletic shoes and are also called "sneakers" in American English. Other names for sneakers includes rubber shoes in Philippine English, track shoes in Singapore English, canvas shoes in Nigerian English, Camboo in Ghana English meaning Camp boot and sportex in Greece. Several terms for sneakers exist in South Africa, including gym shoes, tennies, sports shoes, sneaks, and takkies. In Geordie English, sneakers may also be called sandshoes, gym boots, or joggers while plimsolls may be referred to as daps in Welsh English. The British English equivalent of sneaker in its modern form is divided into two separate types - predominantly outdoor and fashionable trainers, training shoes or quality 'basketball shoes' and in contrast cheap rubber-soled, low cut and canvas-topped 'plimsolls'. Tennis shoes is another term used in Australian, and North American English. However, in Australian, Canadian, and Scottish English, running shoes and runners are synonymous terms used to refer to sneakers with the latter term also used in Hiberno-English. The term "sneakers" is most commonly used in Northeastern United States, Central and South Florida, Australia New Zealand, and parts of Canada. The shoes have gone by a variety of names, depending on geography and changing over the decades. Reebok Royal Glide Ripple Clip men's shoe
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