CANDY
Wild Word Friday!
If you’re like me, you’re trying to eat up all the CANDY left over from your holiday celebrations so that you can go on a diet and lose the weight all that CANDY piled on. If you’re not like me, you have all my admiration. And you probably didn’t gain any weight in December.
Did you know that in modern British English, CANDY refers to a boiled sweet? I’m more familiar with the American and Canadian use of the word – any kind of sweet made from sugar.
The word CANDY comes to us from the Sanskrit language. Khanda referred to large lumps of sugar and meant fragment, from the root word, khand, “to break”. Speakers of the Persian language morphed the word into kand, and when it travelled to the Arabic language it became sukkar quandi. On to Europe where in France CANDY was called sucre candi. In English that was sugar CANDY.
In the U.S. and Canada we’ve mostly dropped the sugar, but I do on occasion hear my 92-year-old father-in-law speak of sugar CANDY.
I still have about 5 Herseys kisses left. That’ll probably last about one more day. So…
Does anybody have any good diet tips?
Blessings!
Sue
(Information in this post was derived from THE CHRONOLOGY OF WORDS AND PHRASES by Linda and Roger Flavell. Photo from Wikipedia.)
Great advice, Lynn!
The only way I ever succeed on a diet is to count calories. That way, if you go OFF the diet, you can just count the calories in what you ate and then…………well….maybe you are done eating for that day – lol. But the NEXT day you try harder to stay on the diet so you can eat until the END of the day. The hard part of this is figuring out the calories in complex foods 🙁