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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

OP posts:
diamondofdoom · 16/11/2016 15:34

Plimsoles to me! I'm just outside Edinburgh

Toombumber · 04/12/2016 23:01

Plimsolls, Essex.

Hopelass · 04/12/2016 23:07

Pumps. North west.

sn0wdr0p4 · 04/12/2016 23:10

Pumps- Lancashire

DillDongMerrilyOnHigh · 04/12/2016 23:26

Pumps - Lancashire too.

Janey50 · 04/12/2016 23:28

Plimsolls - West London.

ReggaeShark · 04/12/2016 23:28

Pumps OR plimsolls (I'm bilingual).

smegsmeg · 04/12/2016 23:31

Pumps. West Yorkshire

ClinkyMonkey · 04/12/2016 23:37

Gutties (sounding like guddies) or gym shoes, depending on who I'm talking to Smile - am in Belfast.

hoddtastic · 05/12/2016 00:02

Pumps. North west.

jellyshoeswithdiamonds · 05/12/2016 00:05

Daps

South Wales

dicdicnurse · 05/12/2016 00:14

Daps, South Wales!

MaynJune · 02/01/2017 18:56

In Midlothian we called them rubbers, or gym shoes.

JangleJem · 06/03/2017 09:50

Plimsoles. Surrey.
(But we just called them plimps in our house.)

RiverdaleJughead · 06/03/2017 09:51

Pumps - I'm from Leeds

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