Skitter, stroke
1) If you walk across a pebble beach, you kick up the pebbles and some of them make their way into your shoes. Could I use the word ‘skitter’ here?
“At least a few pebbles would always skitter into my flip-flops.
2)If I swam the breastroke in the ocean for a very short time, could I say that I only did a few strokes and then got out?
Thank you.
Top answer
) 1. In the US, "flip-flops" are slippers not shoes. I've never seen he word "skitter" used like this.
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- In the US, "flip-flops" are slippers not shoes.
- I've never seen he word "skitter" used like this.
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- You'd have to explain that you're swimming breaststroke because the word "stroke" usually means crawl stroke.
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(The following is US usage.)
1. In the US, "flip-flops" are slippers not shoes. I've never seen he word "skitter" used like this. You might hear the following in the US:
"Some pebbles always get in between my toes and the bottom of my flip-flops."
2. You'd have to explain that you're swimming breaststroke because the word "stroke" usually means crawl stro
0A few pebbles would always find their way into my flip-flops.
0Also, the two given sentences are very unusual. I'm a native English speaker in the US and I've never had to say anything like them in my life. Why would you want to describe how pebbles get caught between your flip-flops and your toes, and how you did a few breaststrokes and then got out of the water?
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