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

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Plimmies or plimsoles. Was at about 6 schools in Midlands and Yorkshire.

Daps mid Wales, my London cousins looked and finally worked out my DSIS was asking if they had seen her plimsoles.

daps in wiltshire, but galloshes in carlisle in the 70s. thought the other kids were joking, but no, thats what they were called.

pumps - stoke on trent

Plimsoles. Ireland.

Plimsolls- grew up in London.
Know of a teacher who calls them PE Slippers.

In my part of Scotland.......gutties!

Daps. Dorset

I love in York now and call them plimsolls but when I was growing up in Belfast they were gutties.

Plimsoles or "plimmys"!

Daps - Somerset

Me - plimsolls, SE England, they also get called pumps here.
My mum - sand shoes - west coast of Scotland.

Never heard daps except on MN

I'd call any kind of sports/leisure shoes like that runners. From Republic of Ireland.

Plimsolls, from deepest darkest Essex.

Gnashers, west of Scotland

We called them deck shoes (Canada) but no one ever wore them because they were, and still are, horrible looking shoes.

Pumps - Shropshire.

Plimsolls - East Midlands

Daps. South Wales.

Sandshoes - West of Scotland

Plimsolls to my mum (southern african), pumps to my dad/school (derbys/staffs border) - very confusing as a small child!

Converse shoes were called tackies!

Gutties. Belfast.

Yy gee! Mutton dummies

Plimsols (London) or Sand Shoes (from my dad who was from Sunderland. DH (Sheffield) and DS (we live near Huddersfield and Barnsley) call them Gym Shoes.