On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:04:13 +0100, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

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>"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message 
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>> plimsolls (bumpers),
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>   Interesting, I've never heard that one. We used to call them 'daps' - I 
>have no idea why, but I believe the army used it around the Wiltshire area.
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Bumpers was/is a west coast thing (I think) but I thought plimsolls was
generically English.
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Regards
     Stephen

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