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What do you call these and where do you come from?

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MardyBra · 03/02/2014 15:08

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/School_plimsolls.jpg

OP posts:
Juno77 · 03/02/2014 15:09

Gym shoes. Edinburgh.

ThreeBeeOneGee · 03/02/2014 15:10

Plimsolls. Home counties.

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MardyBra · 03/02/2014 15:11

We did have a thread on this years ago, but it was lost to Chat. There are some really interesting variations iirc.

OP posts:
SpookedMackerel · 03/02/2014 15:13

Plimsolls (well, actually, I always thought they were called Plimp Soles as a child)

I am from London.

DuPainDuVinDuFromage · 03/02/2014 15:13

Gym shoes here too - from north-east England

BettyMacdonald · 03/02/2014 15:13

Plimsolls -SE London and Kent

Sixweekstowait · 03/02/2014 15:14

Pumps - East Riding ( of Yorkshire)

Stripytop · 03/02/2014 15:14

Pumps. North west

scarfaceace · 03/02/2014 15:14

Plimsoles - from London.

I'm pretty sure they call them Daps in the Bristol area.

SwayingBranches · 03/02/2014 15:15

Pumps. W. Yorkshire

meditrina · 03/02/2014 15:15

Plimmies - what we called them at school in Midlands, many years ago.

MrsHappyBee · 03/02/2014 15:16

Pumps - W. Midlands

WildThong · 03/02/2014 15:17

San-shoes, no idea why. Glasgow.

youbethemummylion · 03/02/2014 15:17

Pumps North East

bigTillyMint · 03/02/2014 15:17

Pumps Liverpool/Wirral

I can't remember what the DC (London) call them!

HyvaPaiva · 03/02/2014 15:17

Sand shoes. Scottish.

MirandaWest · 03/02/2014 15:17

I call them pumps. Born in Leeds and brought up in Liverpool. DC call them plimsolls - born in Hertfordshire. We live in York now - not sure what they're called up here.

MrsBungle · 03/02/2014 15:18

Plimsolls - South Scotland

ILoveCwtches · 03/02/2014 15:18

Daps - S.Wales

Helpyourself · 03/02/2014 15:18

Plimsoles in london

Stopmithering · 03/02/2014 15:18

Pumps - North West

ExitPursuedTheRoyalPrude · 03/02/2014 15:19

Pumps. Oldham.

Always caused much hilarity at school when were told to go and get our Pump Bags.

CatAssTrophy · 03/02/2014 15:19

"Constantly missing" or "That's 5 pairs this year, DD!"

West of Scotland.

TheArmadillo · 03/02/2014 15:19

Daps - Bristol.

Apparently stands for dunlop athletic plimsolls.

fluffyanimal · 03/02/2014 15:20

I used to call them daps when I was a child growing up in Somerset. Now I'm in Yorkshire married to a Lancastrian, and call them pumps.