Trainers are shoes

I was helping my daughter study for some upcoming big tests. We're downloading old tests online and studying from them (which is how everyone practices I'm told). One of the English test questions was a story about trainers. Trainers are what they call sneakers, as opposed to how we might think of a trainer as a person who helps you lift weights. Well this difference was quite important because the answers to the open ended questions would be very different depending upon your definition. I asked my daughter what she thought trainers were, and she knew it meant shoes, nice! 

Homecoming also means something quite different. I think of high school football and the homecoming court and alumni coming back to visit. Here, homecoming means a military vessel returning home for soldiers, friends and families to reunite. Admittedly that might just be what I hear working in the defense industry, but still pretty interesting...