Talk:Shoelaces

Merge proposal
Discussion re: merging History of shoelaces to the Shoelaces article. Valfontis (talk) 17:07, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Merge I'm not sure there is anything that needs to be salvaged from History of shoelaces, but it's unlikely we need a separate article on the history of the topic, and any new info in the history article can be added to this article about the primary topic. Valfontis (talk) 17:07, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ I've redirected the history article to this one without merging. Valfontis (talk) 15:50, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Shoestrings (US English)
Is this correct? I've never heard anyone refer to shoelaces as shoestrings, and I'm skeptical that this is a US standard term. Natureium (talk) 20:57, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Natureium - I have no idea personally, but Walmart seem to sell them, albeit with a separating space. Langcliffe (talk) 21:21, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


 * The term shoestring is somewhat archaic, but not altogether out of use. According to Google Trends, in the past 12 months, people in the U.S. searched as follows: shoelace = 37%, shoe lace = 34%, shoestring = 21%, shoe string = 8%. Source: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=shoelace,shoe%20lace,shoestring,shoe%20string
 * Ian Fieggen (talk) 05:47, 13 December 2017 (UTC)