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

390 replies

MardyBra · 03/02/2014 15:08

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

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MazzleDazzle · 28/08/2014 21:37

NE Scotland: jimmies, but if they're white canvas ones or similar, then coaty perks! Yes, really.

Septbaby · 29/08/2014 17:18

Daps :) Bath/Bristol area

wanttosinglikemarycoughlan · 29/08/2014 17:24

Pumps. Yorkshire

MrsCurrent · 02/09/2014 22:31

Pumps (Manchester)

CalamitouslyWrong · 02/09/2014 22:32

Gym shoes here (from Glasgow)

chemenger · 02/09/2014 22:35

Jimmies, Aberdeenshire. I suspect it might properly be spelled with a "g".

helensburgh · 02/09/2014 22:37

Sand shoes

West of scotland

steppemum · 02/09/2014 22:42

daps - wiltshire (glos use daps too)

seasavage · 07/09/2014 20:57

Plimsoles, from anglia/ home counties (I moved aged 9) and now live in the Midlands.

SanityClause · 07/09/2014 21:00

I live in SE London, and call them plimsolls.

However, I am from Australia, and never saw them there, at all.

MehsMum · 07/09/2014 21:02

lollylaughs: yes, takkies!
Lived in southern Africa as a kid, and that stuck.

babyboomersrock · 07/09/2014 21:04

Sand shoes (Glasgow). Some people called them gutties.

justjodie92 · 07/09/2014 21:05

Daps -Bristol

notadoctor · 07/09/2014 21:06

Pumps - Manchester

cruikshank · 07/09/2014 21:07

Gutties. From 20 miles outside Glasgow. Also heard them called sandshoes there, or sannies for short.

IMurderedStampyLongnose · 07/09/2014 21:13

Mutton dummies in Belfast!

Lally112 · 07/09/2014 21:16

gym shoes, Perthshire.

MarchEliza · 07/09/2014 21:24

Oh! I remember those, they're daps. I'm originally from Gloucestershire.

Vitalstatistix · 07/09/2014 21:27

where I'm from (NE Derbyshire) they are generally called pumps. My parents always made us call them plimsoles though.

MissFenella · 07/09/2014 21:32

Daps - Somerset

olaflikeswarmhugs · 07/09/2014 21:34

Sanshoes or if I'm being really slang , "sannies"

West of scotland

Ultracrepidarian · 07/09/2014 21:38

Keds originally from the Borders.

Betrayedbutsurvived · 07/09/2014 21:51

Pumps, West Yorkshire.

IAmAPaleontologist · 07/09/2014 21:53

plimsolls. grew up in east riding/hull but my mum is French so perhaps not the best example Grin .

WestEast · 07/09/2014 21:55

Sannies, shirt for sand shoes. I'm from Hull.