HOW TO PRONOUNCE PORSCHE..for Aussies

[MFX]

At least you don't call them 'plimpsoles'. Took me years to get away from that 

 

Plimpsoles???? Where did that come from, and don't say it's an Adelaide thing, because I grew up there, and I have never heard it  

[Niko]

I thought they were dainty little umbrellas

 

 

[Carrera28]

A plimsoll shoe, plimsoll, plimsole or pumps   is a type of athletic shoe with a canvas upper and rubber sole developed as beachwear in the 1830s by the Liverpool Rubber Company.

Plimsolls had solid rubber soles about 8 or 9mm thick, to which the canvas was glued without coming up the sides (as on trainers). The effect when running was not dissimilar to running without shoes.

The shoe was originally, and often still is in parts of the United Kingdom, called a "sand shoe" and acquired the nickname "plimsoll" in the 1870s. This name derived, according to Nicholette Jones's book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull, or because, just like the Plimsoll line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet.

 

A parasol a light umbrella used to give shade from the sun. 

[Niko]

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A parasol a light umbrella used to give shade from the sun. 

I was close

[LeeM]

Plimpsoles???? Where did that come from, and don't say it's an Adelaide thing, because I grew up there, and I have never heard it  

 I'm a pom mate. Mum n dad said it since I can remember. I stand corrected with the spelling too

[tomo]

learn some thing new every day 

[WOKA]

Anyone ever wear 'daps' on their feet..  

 

Moving on..