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Cunning linguists

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

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magimedi · 03/02/2014 15:29

Used to wear them at school - 1960's - Bristol area - daps.

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magimedi · 03/02/2014 15:29

Plimsolls had laces & were white.

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SlightlyDampWellies · 03/02/2014 15:32

Ugly, or just slip-ons.

(Not from the UK).

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/02/2014 15:33

Plimsolls - Midlands.

I have heard of thm being called daps, too.

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justmuddlingalong · 03/02/2014 15:33

Thank you Mothra. That's my 'learned something new for today'. Grin

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DrankSangriaInThePark · 03/02/2014 15:34

Pumps.

Plimsolls were what posh people called them.

(Nottinghamshire)

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MuttonCadet · 03/02/2014 15:34

Pumps. South Yorkshire.

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thefirstmrsrochester · 03/02/2014 15:35

Sannies (sand shoes) - Glasgow.
DM calls them 'bumpers' - Glasgow also.

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Piscivorus · 03/02/2014 15:35

They're pumps in Liverpool

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choccyp1g · 03/02/2014 15:36

Daps - South Wales

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HauntedNoddyCar · 03/02/2014 15:36

Daps South Wales.

Moved to England and they called them plimsolls I think.

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RueDeWakening · 03/02/2014 15:37

Pumps - Derbyshire
Then
Daps - Somerset.
Now
Pumps (again!) - London.

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Bramshott · 03/02/2014 15:37

Daps - Gloucestershire

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Petesdaughter · 03/02/2014 15:44

Plimsolls - York

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Aboyandabunny · 03/02/2014 15:45

Sand shoes. Northeast Scotland.

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RandallFloyd · 03/02/2014 15:45

Pumps

North Wales

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SecretRed · 03/02/2014 15:45

Pumps-Manchester

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InkleWinkle · 03/02/2014 15:45

Gym shoes or gym rubbers - just outside Edinburgh.

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Mishmashfamily · 03/02/2014 15:47

Pumps - manchester -- Hi secret

Jackie chan shoes - dp original

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HighBrows · 03/02/2014 15:47

Pumps - Dublin, Ireland.

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Taffeta · 03/02/2014 15:48

Ugly school plimsolls - SE

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elQuintoConyo · 03/02/2014 15:49

Plimsolls/Plimmies.

Childhood until aged 9 was near Inverness, then Somerset-way and Lincolnshire until around 18.

Have heard the word daps.

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drspouse · 03/02/2014 15:50

Pumps at home - south end of W Midlands.

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horsetowater · 03/02/2014 15:50

Plimsolls - pronounced sometimes 'plimpsoles'

Pumps are ballerina style shoes.

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WireCat · 03/02/2014 15:51

Daps. Wales.

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