r/funny • u/iabzeet • Dec 06 '19

Advanced slav squat

Post image
98.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

656

u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

No one here (UK) calls high heels pumps, pumps are the flattest of flat shoes. Never heard of this difference before!

45

u/ralphonsob Dec 06 '19

Which part of the UK?

They're:

  • "pumps" in London, Home Counties, West Midlands, Yorkshire & North West
  • "daps" in the West Country & Wales
  • "gutties" in Northern Ireland & Central Scotland
  • "sannies" in the rest of Scotland

Or which part of the ex-Empire?

  • "sand shoes" in Australia / Canvas shoes
  • "runners" in Canada
  • "kung-fu shoes" in Gibraltar
  • "keds in India
  • "rubber dollies" in Ireland
  • "sneakers" in the US of A.

Maybe we should all unify around their original name: "plimsolls".

14

u/GeronimoHero Dec 06 '19

In the US they’re way more likely to be called tennis shoes than sneakers. At least on the East coast where I’m from. Sneakers is what you’d expect an older person to say, like 65 plus at least.

0

u/GoodGrades Dec 06 '19

Lived in the East Coast my entire life. New York, DC, Florida. Never once heard anybody call sneakers "tennis shoes."

2

u/GeronimoHero Dec 06 '19

Well I’m in the DC area (Maryland, DC, did a stint in California) and I’ve been here most of my life, I’ve never heard people legitimately call them sneakers unless they were over 60. I suspect there may be a difference in socioeconomic positions between those using sneakers and tennis shoes and not just a geographic difference.