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JJB Offline
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In the summer my garden shoes are the cheapest children's black canvas gym shoes. P and I are both of southern descent but he calls them plimsolls and I call them daps. He didn't understand what daps were.

Anyone else know what daps are?

I think it may have come from he name Dunlop Athletic Plimsolls.
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Always known as Daps here in sunshiny South Wales.
There used to be a joke about Dai, the fastest runner in South Wales having an accident when he had a blowout in his dap.
Sorry but I can't remember the real joke but it was something like that!
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They’re known as pumps in Stafford/ Stoke City or they were when I was a kid
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https://everywordcounts.co.uk/names-for-canvas-shoes/
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(22-07-2024, 09:27 PM)Veggie Wrote: https://everywordcounts.co.uk/names-for-canvas-shoes/

Well, that was interesting and very nostalgic.  I had forgotten dapbags. I remember making one for our lad in primary school out of airforce blue material (there's still some in the loft some 30 years later,  maybe it's time for a clear out)  but although I know I had one I can't remember what it was made of.
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Vinny Offline
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They are all just sandshoes to me. Mek sure ya divn't get them mucky plodging in the clarts! Big Grin
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Bren Offline
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Just plimsoles here in Derbyshire or shortened to plims.
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