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

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

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

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

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

Me too

And Calendars that start on Sundays

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.

Aveline

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

Refuse to engage with it.

Aldom - I think that you love words as much as I do !

Esmay language is so interesting isn't it?

loopyloo, Sunday is the first day of the week to me. Is it American?

Aveline

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

My DDs were avid trick or treaters from the age of 5 or so - they’re now 46 and 49! And they weren’t at the time watching any American TV - we were living in a ME country with no children’s TV in English at all - and very few resident Americans.

I still remember dd1 at 5 being very happy with her home made witch’s outfit and her ‘brooming’ stick - concocted by me out of a stout stick and a lot of twigs! 🎃

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?

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 have to say I was forever correcting our three youngest children’s words and accents. Their favourite children and teen TV programs were all on the Disney channel and American.

But we’ve adopted many USA traditions over here now, “Trick or Treat”, “Baby Showers” and “School Graduations”, I don’t mind them at all and they are/were fun.

I just didn’t want my little ones speaking in faux American accents.

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?

When I hear candy I think of sticks of rock you get at the seaside or candy canes - which my brother informed me, came from Germany.
That’s what anyone asking me for candy would get.

I know Cossy it could be a great deal worse.

But is not actually 'awesome'!!

Well, as I wrote up-thread.....Candy is an old English word. So 'we' took it with us to America. The word Candy has a very interesting history.... which could be taught to children who currently use the word.

Cossy: Maybe the sky will fall in?

It's probably my least favourite baby girl's name (apologies in advance to any Candys)

loopyloo

And Calendars that start on Sundays

Noooo!
When I was a child, Sunday was definitely, officially the first day of the week in this country.
I remember my dad telling me that when I was 6, and only a week later my school teacher taught my class the very same thing. As she was old enough to reach retirement age that year, I am assuming that she had been taught the same thing as a child, so it certainly isnt a recent thing.

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.

We have never lived in Scotland, but neither dds nor the Gdcs now, have ever performed any unpleasant tricks. In fact when dd1 was still only about 6, I saw a piece she’d written at school about going ‘trickle treating!’ (The teacher had corrected it, I dare say having had a little laugh.)

The Gdcs (now 6, 10, 11) always go T and T-ing locally with a lot of other local children, all dressed up, with a few (often also dressed up) parents in tow. And they all know they have to say thank you very nicely to anyone kind enough to dish out sweets.