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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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MajesticWhine · 07/09/2014 21:58

Plimsolls. (south-east)
But I have a feeling we called them pumps when I was little (midlands)

LifeHuh · 07/09/2014 22:00

Plimsolls - like it says on the link!! (Kent)

thatsn0tmyname · 07/09/2014 22:03

Plimsoles, Surrey/ Middx

BeCool · 07/09/2014 22:15

Sneakers - from NZ.

But now I am British and in the school system here (via DC) I call them plimsolls so people know what i am on about - London

WoweeZowee · 10/09/2014 20:20

(Me) plimsolls / SE
(DP) daps / S Wales

upduffedsecret · 10/11/2014 17:51

Daps. Ebbw valley, south Wales.

Here in Worcestershire everyone calls them pumps

yippeekiyaymiffy · 29/12/2014 22:46

These are clearly daps.
Wales.

Mini05 · 29/12/2014 23:11

Pumps North west

MrsTuppence · 29/12/2014 23:12

Plimsolls to me - London
Pumps to dh - W Midlands/Derby area.
Source of many a misunderstanding, bloody things.

SirVixofVixHall · 29/12/2014 23:14

Daps. Wales.

thenightsky · 29/12/2014 23:15

Plimsolls, or Plimies.

Yorkshire

snuffykins · 29/12/2014 23:21

Plimsolls. Ireland.

clickers123 · 01/05/2015 09:28

Pumps. We used to have pump bags to put them in at school in West Yorkshire!

GirlInTheDirtyShirt · 23/06/2015 17:10

Pumps. NE Derbyshire

mmmuffins · 23/06/2015 21:01

I have no word for them. From Canada.

Alchemist · 23/06/2015 21:04

Dappers or sandshoes - NE.

Plimsoles - SE

Lizsmum · 23/06/2015 22:18

PE shoes - London

ineverfinishanyth · 18/08/2015 15:48

Plimsolls - Suffolk

Pastamancer · 18/08/2015 16:02

Plimsolls here in Cornwall. Only ever heard daps on mn

shadowfax07 · 24/08/2015 01:15

Daps here in SE Wales.

MadGrumblyGnome · 24/08/2015 01:16

Plimsolls in Sussex

NerrSnerr · 24/08/2015 01:36

Sandshoes- Hull.

CrazyBoo · 28/08/2015 07:01

Loafers or sandshoes.

NSW, Australia

MiddleAgeMiddleEngland · 14/10/2015 17:33

Daps. Originally West of England. I still have my dap bag from junior school, it's about 45 years old now.

I was in a school a while ago in Middle England and said something like "Change into your daps because your shoes are muddy." I might as well have spoken in another language for all the sense it seemed to make.

Pumps are what you blow up balloons or tyres with. Grin

NewLife4Me · 14/10/2015 17:40

Pumps.
I said this months ago up thread though Grin
North West.