Great Nephew Asked Me To Buy Him Some "Candy"?

Language evolves as time goes on, have never heard a child ask for candy but if they watch lots of US tv it’s not surprising.
Does it matter?

Aveline

It was never trick or treat when my children now aged 42 and 45 were young. In Scotland we went guising. Guisers had to sing a wee song or recite a poem in order to be rewarded with a little something. There was no nasty trick side of it.

😂😂😂I delivered my annual ‘guising’ tirade to my youngest grandchildren the other day!
I don’t remember any ‘tricks’, just a wee song in exchange for fruit and nuts. No nuts nowadays .
I’m also noticing that the Hallowe’en outfits are becoming more and more gruesome and horrific. My children would dress as absolutely anything ( son 3 made a fabulous Dame Edna Everage!), but now it’s zombies, corpses etc.

When I was a child my mother brought me over from London to the farm in Kerry where she grew up , my uncle used to take me to the creamery on the horse and cart with the churns, he would stop at the shop and ask me did I want a candy bar, only place I heard that.and it was a chocolate bar.

Just please don’t let us start putting the date the wrong way round, as in 9/11, that has caught me unawares most years when the anniversary of the atrocity comes around.

Does anyone know why the US does this when most other countries don’t.

Candy floss is fine here, but I've read of Americans questioning that usage, expecting cotton candy!
One that really annoys me is the growing use of 'butt' or 'ass' for bottom.
We have the word 'ar*e', which works very well, in lots of ways. I'd hate to lose it.

Cossy

Magenta8

School Proms.
Re-naming senior school years one to five as seven to eleven. (while still retaining lower and upper sixth)

Interns and Resident doctors.

Where will it end?

Maybe the sky will fall in?

As long as we don’t follow America by starting illegal wars and voting megalomaniacs as president, oh yes we don’t have presidents. We have prime ministers so all is not yet lost

Fallingstar

Just please don’t let us start putting the date the wrong way round, as in 9/11, that has caught me unawares most years when the anniversary of the atrocity comes around.

I’ve just spent two weeks in the US thinking all the food in my Ds’s fridge is out of date. 😂

While I appreciate that language evolves I dislike the American expressions that keep creeping in.
‘Reaching out’ where I always imagine someone with their arms outstretched and ‘can I get’ really annoys. I want to direct them to the cupboard under the stairs or wherever this item is kept.
What is wrong with contact and I would like. ?

Aldom

Candy is actually an old word, late Middle English. From old French, sucre candi. Which is from the Persian, Gand, meaning cane sugar.
Ultimately it goes back to the Sanskrit Khand, meaning a piece or fragment of sugar.

Blimey that's interesting.😊😊

Gracey

Candy floss is fine here, but I've read of Americans questioning that usage, expecting cotton candy!
One that really annoys me is the growing use of 'butt' or 'ass' for bottom.
We have the word 'ar*e', which works very well, in lots of ways. I'd hate to lose it.

Or even arse!

I've heard that American parents have said that their children are speaking like British people since Peppa Pig programme went there.

Cuts both ways I suppose.

My 14 year old granddaughter and her friends have recently started addressing each other as "Bro"! 😂 She's only tried it with me once, but I suspect that my look of astonishment, and me asking her why she thought her granny was her brother, made her have a rethink! 😂

The book ofcGenesis gives the 7th day as the day of rest. In the Christian west (though not in the middle east) the day of rest is Sunday. Therefore Monday must be the first day of the week.

Our children might as well be in American schools. The head teacher is the Principal, the toilets are bathrooms, they have SATS instead of exams. Soon they’ll have assignments, report cards and quizzes and flags all over the place.
The irony is that American education standards are very low. We should be looking to Finland for better schools, not American.

Magenta8

School Proms.
Re-naming senior school years one to five as seven to eleven. (while still retaining lower and upper sixth)

Interns and Resident doctors.

Where will it end?

Yes and don't forget semesters and recess often found in schools today and all UK universities have a 'Campus' !!!

Candy is what we call sweets.

How many people say JAIL rather than GAOL? - the latter is British and the former American
I'm sure others will know of other incorrect words that have crept into regular use . For once I can't blame the orange menace!

Kittylester

It does.
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My two youngest grandchildren call candy floss, cotton candy it irritates me.

Fallingstar

Just please don’t let us start putting the date the wrong way round, as in 9/11, that has caught me unawares most years when the anniversary of the atrocity comes around.

... that irritates me, too.

The logical sequence is, surely, the day then the month and finally the year?

I once had to make some travel arrangements for a group of Americans who were coming to visit the company I worked for; they were to visit another area first and then come down to us via rail.

I booked their tickets and then emailed them with the departure and arrival times. Two of them were completely flummoxed by the way I printed the date - and the 24-hour clock completely threw them. In fact, I had to email one of them again with the departure and arrival times in AM and PM. The company I worked for were about to make an Initial Public Offering, on NASDAQ, that's why they came over - so I was a tad surprised at their inability to figure out the dates and times!

But, when I finally met them, they were all very grateful - and they all had nice teeth .

All of my DGC refer to cushions (the soft furnishings you might use on your armchairs and sofas) as pillows. Ive had to accept it, though it does still cause confusion at times
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Recently, DGD wanted me to help her make a cover for her pillow. Having agreed, and after mentally planning and preparing for this project, it was still several days before I suddenly realised that we might not be talking about the same thing - it turned out that I was right about that!

Margs

I promptly corrected him with "you mean 'chocolate' NOT 'candy'."

This creeping Americanisation of plain English has gone so far and no further in this family!

Sets my teeth on edge.......

Drives me mad when I buy a coffee and am asked if it is ‘to go’ NO it’s ’to Take away’ grrrr

My daughter worked in America several years ago and when asked the time of a meeting she said it’s at half four, they turned up at 2

AGAA4

I've heard that American parents have said that their children are speaking like British people since Peppa Pig programme went there.

Cuts both ways I suppose.

It will take as long as it takes. My favourite Peppa pearl of wisdom.