To ask if you know what gutties are?

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In mid Scotland, they're the local word for plimsoles or basic trainers. Everyone at school had gutties for PE.

What are your strange local words others haven't heard of or need explaining?

Mutton dummies.

Crozzle? Yorkshire, from steelworks but also used for example for a bacon sandwich.. I want my bacon crozzled.. (very well done!)

Never heard of guttie.

Behind my house there's a tenfoot

It’s guddies in NI.

I knew what they were, but round here they were 'pumps'

Pillion is a local word I think- when you give someone a ride on the back of your pushbike.

Gutties = Daps for me, south west

Gutties here but with a dropped set of Ts so more like a cross between guddies and gutties (NI)

Yes runners here Ireland but gutties where my Dad is from border county.

Nah pillion is used all over, it’s a standard term used for the passenger on a motorbike ie pillion passenger.

A good Scottish one is saying “how” when we mean “why”!

Ah that makes sense, I just know that round 'ere that was the only term used, not backie, or croggy etc which I know is used elsewhere.

I know gutties but only because my husband from NI calls plimsolls gutties.

excuse you, pumps or sannies is the correct name for these

Gutties = plimmies

My dad born during the war in the highlands of Scotland has always called trainers ‘sand shoes.’ That’s probably dying out now, I don’t hear anyone else use it.

Where I grew up, those are daps.

Didn't know gutties until I worked in a children's clothes shop in Edinburgh, but loads of customers there called them that. They also had a funny word for school polo shirts but I can't remember what it was. The kitchen counter/worktop was the bunker.

Croggy was used where I'm from.. to mean a ride on the crossbar... you could only have a croggy on a boys bike...

Scottish here

The word "backie"

Meaning to give someone a lift/ride on the back of your bike

Sand shoes

Was it a sark?

@Longwhiskers My mum used to talk about sand shoes. But they weren’t quite the same as plimsolls or trainers - they were canvas sandals with a T-bar and buckle, and rubberised soles.

In London we called gym shoes plimsolls or pumps.

In Sussex, a narrow alleyway between two streets is called a twitten, and a steep track in the countryside is a bostal.

Behind mine too! At least when I was growing up.

East London area - we call them plimsolls.