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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 479676" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks, Steely. Yes, in British English, sweets are just those things you buy at... used to be "the sweet shop" but now? The newsagents' - or, heavens, is that another foreign word? The place where you buy newspapers... I would think "candy" would cover it but now I am not really sure what candy means <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Stuff that contains only sugar, anyway, and lots of glorious additives probably. When I was a child, you used to go to the sweet shop and buy "quarters" (ie a quarter pound) of sweets that had wonderful names that I now forget that the shopkeeper would weigh out for you from large glass jars. Sounds very Dickensian! These are the things, in any case, that I never buy J...</p><p>I don't know how it is that I have got so cynical and hard-bitten but I'm afraid the teacher's assessment that "all was rosy in the garden" doesn't really reassure me. I just have the sense that we are waiting for the real problems to appear in terms of his learning. And I hope very much that my pessimism is unfounded...</p><p>Oh - and knickers... what do you call them? We also say "pants" which is for you our "trousers"... Is there an interpreter in the house? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 479676, member: 11227"] Thanks, Steely. Yes, in British English, sweets are just those things you buy at... used to be "the sweet shop" but now? The newsagents' - or, heavens, is that another foreign word? The place where you buy newspapers... I would think "candy" would cover it but now I am not really sure what candy means :) Stuff that contains only sugar, anyway, and lots of glorious additives probably. When I was a child, you used to go to the sweet shop and buy "quarters" (ie a quarter pound) of sweets that had wonderful names that I now forget that the shopkeeper would weigh out for you from large glass jars. Sounds very Dickensian! These are the things, in any case, that I never buy J... I don't know how it is that I have got so cynical and hard-bitten but I'm afraid the teacher's assessment that "all was rosy in the garden" doesn't really reassure me. I just have the sense that we are waiting for the real problems to appear in terms of his learning. And I hope very much that my pessimism is unfounded... Oh - and knickers... what do you call them? We also say "pants" which is for you our "trousers"... Is there an interpreter in the house? :) [/QUOTE]
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