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Original poster

To demand that my son does not say "candy"?

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Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:12

I rather suspect I am. He says "cayndy" in a very american accent. I HATE it. I snap that he is not american and the word is SWEETS, or CHOCOLATE

erm, depending on whether he is talking about sweets or chocolate

It drives me up the wall, this fake american accent.

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AllThreeWays · 02/01/2010 11:14

Tis not!!

It's lollies

pjmama · 02/01/2010 11:14

If YABU, then so am I!

AllThreeWays · 02/01/2010 11:14

or chocolate

Original poster
Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:15

Not if it's a mars bar, it's not!

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Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:15

bugger. x post!

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nannynobnobs · 02/01/2010 11:16

I HATE that. YANBU! It's sweets.

AllThreeWays · 02/01/2010 11:16

I had a friend you spoke with an American accent (for real) because he watched Sesame Street, he was Australian

ijustwanttoaskaquestion · 02/01/2010 11:16

My dd, aged 4.5 calls sweets and chocolates MOO bars, why?? dunno

AllThreeWays · 02/01/2010 11:17

who not you

Fraochsmum · 02/01/2010 11:18

YANBU - it would drive me mental!!!

shockers · 02/01/2010 11:21

Kids in our class also say trash instead of rubbish bin "put it in the trash" and movie instead of film... I've even heard mom for mum. It's too much American TV!

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Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:22

It does. I am extraordinarily irritated by it!

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Paolosgirl · 02/01/2010 11:25

YANBU - it's sweets (or sweeties up here), not candy and biscuits, not cookies (unless it's of the chocolate chip variety!)

lovechoc · 02/01/2010 11:27

YANBU - it's sweeties or choc.

lovechoc · 02/01/2010 11:28

and it's mum not 'mom'. living in the UK last time I looked...

llareggub · 02/01/2010 11:28

I feel the same way about people saying "suck it up" on here. It has been irritating me for months.

LetThereBeRock · 02/01/2010 11:28

The fake accent would bother me. The use of candy would not.

Now if he says 'erb as opposed to herb then YADNBU.

weegiemum · 02/01/2010 11:29

... and the letter 'Z' is 'zed' not 'zee' !!!

southeastastra · 02/01/2010 11:29

aw was he watching willy wonka and the candy man?

sarah293 · 02/01/2010 11:31

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Uriel · 02/01/2010 11:32

Mom's pretty normal in the West Midlands.

LetThereBeRock · 02/01/2010 11:32

We do use candy to an extent,here at least, to refer to specific types of boiled sweet and when I was at school our bake sales were always known as 'cake and candy days'.

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Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:33

nope, he has been saying it for ages. No matter how often I say "it's sweets, not candy" "it's a bar of chocolate, not candy" "americans say candy, we say sweets" "IT'S SWEETS NOT CANDY!!!!!!"

ds2 is the worst for the fake american accent. People hearing him would seriously think he was american, it's that good. (Nothing wrong with that - if you are american.) It annoys me so much - it's like fingernails down a blackboard!

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Heqet · 02/01/2010 11:34

Yup riven, and now secondary school is increasingly being called High School.

Why? What was wrong with secondary school?

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LetThereBeRock · 02/01/2010 11:37

If you did go to a high school are you allowed to refer to it as such?