The main reason I didn't do it was merely that my answers were pretty much exactly the same as the first person whose answers I read. I still found it interesting reading other people's responses.
I've already got the sports shoe answer on my list. Most people answered it with "trainers", but I was going to specify the slip-on sports shoe that we wore for school sports in the days before trainers. My Mum called them plimsolls, my Dad called them sand shoes, when I went to school I started calling them pumps, but the children from the rural villages only a few miles away all called the daps. My Mum discovered this when she went to do some supply teaching just a few miles from home, and had no idea what the children were talking about when they said, "shall we wear our daps, miss?" They had different words for several other things, too, I think.
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Date: 2008-04-04 10:01 am (UTC)I've already got the sports shoe answer on my list. Most people answered it with "trainers", but I was going to specify the slip-on sports shoe that we wore for school sports in the days before trainers. My Mum called them plimsolls, my Dad called them sand shoes, when I went to school I started calling them pumps, but the children from the rural villages only a few miles away all called the daps. My Mum discovered this when she went to do some supply teaching just a few miles from home, and had no idea what the children were talking about when they said, "shall we wear our daps, miss?" They had different words for several other things, too, I think.