Did Dip daps used to be called dib dabs?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I'm doubting myself here!

I'm positive in the olden days they were call DIB DABS.

DD3 (17) has explained the logic of the DIP yesdear and yes, obvious sense blah di blah.

Can anyone from the seventies recall, please. Google is fuseless.

Dib dabs and I can't be convinced otherwise!!

Dibs dabs in the 60s - absolutely sure!

Dib Dab here in Ireland.

To the pp who said Dib and Dab don’t rhyme? eh what?

To the pp who said Dib and Dab don’t rhyme? eh what?

That was me. They don’t!

Dib rhymes with fib, nib and glib.
Dab rhymes with fab, nab and tab.

Can't believe they were never Dib-Dabs. Am truly shocked. Looking for vintage packaging of Swizzles and Barrett's sherbet this is the only image I could find on the internet of Dib

That’s really weird. I remember them being called Dib-Daps. Just asked DH and he said the same.

Yep - sherbert diB dabs up North !

To the pp who said Dib and Dab don’t rhyme? eh what?

Well they don't. Dib, rib, nib all rhyme. Dab, nab, cab all rhyme.

just noticed the typo in the title

I remember them as Dib Dabs.

@ChaosTrulyReigns they were definitely dip-dabs, and also the useless plastic tweedle (aka Norman the Foreman) sends his regards.

Yes "rolls off the tongue" is probably want I meant more than "rhyme" IYSWIM

Witch a, my kettle playmogeek. Hope you’re well and grand despite being very wrong

Wotcha and little idiot keyboard

The reason Dib-dab sounds better is because of something known as 'Ablaut reduplication' - a kind of unspoken grammar rule that creates phrases like flip-flop, dilly-dally, bish-bash-bosh etc.

The rule goes thus "If there are three words then the order has to go I, A, O. If there are two words then the first is I and the second is either A or O.”

This is so ingrained to the English ear that you can make up phrases e.g. plick-plock and they sound fine, however nonsensical. But if you tried a plock-plick, then most people would find it jarring. The Dib-dab confusion is just people's inner grammar pedant taking over.

Dip dabs.

I definitely called them dib-dabs

@Saisong Interesting post. Thanks. I didn't know about the verb order, but it rings completely true.

Agree. They were dib dabs when I ate them

Definitely sherbet dip dabs, you dip it in the sherbet and dab it on your tongue. a favourite growing up in the 70s and 80s! Far superior to soggy sherbet fountains.......

Dibs dabs in the 80's and sherbet fountains were better then as well! And the 10p mix up. Now I want sweets...proper sweets.

It's like the whole salt and vinegar blue / green packet debate again!

I remember them as Dib Dabs and am fully on board with the internet changing the pictures theory.

I thought they were still dib dabs but googled it and im not correct

Dib dabs.

Another child of the 70s, definitely dib dabs not dip. I grew up in Lancashire. And yes I also used to eat the double dips too, and sherbet fountains. But there was a product called dib dab.

According to the internet Barratts were dip dabs and Swizzels were dib dabs but I cannot find a picture of the Swizzels one.