"thong" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word to refer to a type of underwear or sandal. For example: "I picked up a new pair of thong sandals when I was shopping yesterday."
Gary Barlow, in contrast, performed before the Queen at her Diamond Jubilee concert wearing a scrupulously clean thong, received an OBE for his services to charity in 2012, and once climbed Kilimanjaro with Fearne Cotton for Comic Relief, the latter an image more disturbing than anything a Google of Allin will throw up.
But one new brand, Thinx, would like to think it has found the solution in the form of three different types of knicker – a thong for light days, a brief for middling days and shorts for heavy days – designed to be worn instead of tampons, towels or Mooncups.
"Where's my other thong?" I asked.
A slow-moving theme is played by gongs arranged in a circle (khong wong yai) with variations in smaller gongs (khong wong lek), two wooden xylophones (ranat ek, ranat thum), and two box-shaped metallophones (ranat thong ek, ranat thong thum).
At some unknown time, more efficient rotation was attained by wrapping a thong around the stick or shaft and pulling on the ends of the thong.
Such a strap, or thong, drill could be applied to drilling either with an abrasive or with a tool point hafted onto the end of the stick.
After the invention of the bow, sometime in the Upper Paleolithic Period, the ends of the thong were fastened to a bow, or a slack bowstring was wrapped around the shaft to create the bow drill.
It is usually made of copper but may also be made of clay or wood, with a hoop and thong lacings to maintain skin tension.
The crosse is a staff that is sharply bent at the top to form a hook from the end of which a thong is drawn and fastened to the shaft about 2 or 3 feet (0.6 or 0.9 metre) from the end of the handle, forming an oval triangle that is woven with a loose network of leather, nylon, or gut to form the pocket with which the ball is handled.
