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

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Daps - Somerset.

Sand shoes, NE.

Mum called them sandshoes and her rellies called them pumps (Yorkshire). Dad called them gym shoes. School (east midlands) called them plimsoles (so did I) and where we are now (Gloucestershire) they are daps. DCs call them daps at school and plimsoles everywhere else.

Gym shoes here in Scotland, gutties at home in ni

Plimsolls. I'm a southerner.

And what a waste of money they were till I stopped buying them, when my suspicion that they never actually got worn from one term's end to the next, was confirmed by my ds!

Pumps to me meant more substantial trainers.

plimsolls - Devon. Never heard them called anything else (except on mn). Weird how they turn from daps to plimsolls sonewhere between Somerset and Devon!

Gutties - Belfast

I didn't have a word for them growing up. Canvas shoes, maybe? The Brits seem to call them plimsols so that's what I use (Norfolk).

i call them plimsoles now, but growing up i called them sandshoes. Im from Australia

Daps in West Country but they look at you with incomprehension if you call them that elsewhere!

Rubbers. West Lothian.

Gutties would be a lacing pair of cheap trainers a la dunlops, golas or possibly adidas sambas.

My dh is from East Lothian and would call them plimsolls. But, he's posh

Plymsols - Devon

Pumps. West Midlands.

San(d)shoes or 99ers (99p - I am v old!)

Glasgow.

Pumps. North West

Daps - Bristol.

To me pumps are ballet shoes or things like this: black pumps

noitsachicken - I prefer this one: Wrong daps, Gromit

I only ever heard them referred to as plimsolls in my family and we lived in Devon, Scotland and the south east.

Plimsolls. From Russia, grew up in Georgia, but learnt English by the way of a teacher from Lancashire.

Pumps in Dorset, Daps in Somerset, Plims in midlands, gym shoes by MIL from Northumberland

Pumps are a sort of dancing shoe aren't they?

I certainly wouldn't have recognised it as a word for gym-shoes/plimsolls/daps.

Wiltshire.

Pumps - North West.

Ah... pump bags... the penny drops! I'm a southerner relocated to Yorkshire and have always been a bit confused by the term pump bag. I'd call them plimsolls.

Pumps make me think of americans talking about heels.