Words you use that isn't understood elsewhere.

[BLUETIT]

You could have just asked for rolls and not wasted everyone's time.

He wanted something to eat, not a car

[MacAdder]

Daps

[Mr Shhh]

Daps

Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?

[NYCBlue]

Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?

Interesting.

[splott parker]

They may say marbles elsewhere but they’ll always be alleys to me, and the big silver ones are bombas, the second ‘b’ pronounced the same as the first. Also its gobs, jacks or five stones indeed!!!!!!!!! And a gully is the correct term for a small lane/path between houses, you can shove your ginnels or cuts up your jacksie (not arse)

[az city]

"Pal" is a troublesome word. In England I always got the impression it was likely to precede a punch but when I moved to Scotland people seemed to use it as a term of vague friendship.

[jon1959]

They may say marbles elsewhere but they’ll always be alleys to me, and the big silver ones are bombas, the second ‘b’ pronounced the same as the first. Also its gobs, jacks or five stones indeed!!!!!!!!! And a gully is the correct term for a small lane/path between houses, you can shove your ginnels or cuts up your jacksie (not arse)

When I were a lad the big marbles (about an inch diameter) were 'dobbers' and the multi-coloured ones were 'beauts'.

[jon1959]

Is it true that 'daps' is actually short for Dunlop Air Products? Or have I fallen for it, hook, line and sinker?

One folk etymology that doesn’t work, however, is deriving daps as an acronym from the factory name “Dunlop Athletic Plimsoles,” as Dunlop did not take over the original manufacturer, the Liverpool Rubber Company, until 1925, fifteen years after the first mention in Cardiff.

https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...in-of-dap-shoe

[NYCBlue]

He wanted something to eat, not a car

Fail.