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

Aveline

Quite agree. How will you cope with 'trick or treat' another American import?

Refuse to engage with it.

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.

And Calendars that start on Sundays

Me too

I didn't know 'candy' meant chocolate. I thought it was sweets.

Quite agree. How will you cope with 'trick or treat' another American import?

Actually, "-isation" is imported from America, too. I've always been amused by that.

Ouch! I would have been tempted to pretend I didn't understand 😡