This thread has brought back so many memories of my mother. She was an English Warbride who moved to Canada in 1946. 'mi duck' was a saying we heard often and we would make fun saying “quack, quack” in response. One of the best times of our lives back in 1956, we travelled with her (by ship) to Leicester to spend the three summer months meeting all our Brit Rellies that we had never known. Gob stoppers, and rock candy were the big deal for us. The Gob stoppers were so big, they were like our black balls which were much smaller and we could get 3 for a penny. Our liquorice was “black babies”, small black liquorice candies at the same price. Today we could not call them that as we would not be “politically correct”. A different name would not have been the same. I remember that summer, what we called chips, you called “crisps” and your chips, we called “fries” but we too went for a bag of “scatchings” while we were in Leicester. Snobs became one of my favourite games and I took several sets back to Canada with me. They were the days, children had a lot more freedom to explore and use their imaginations. The technical age had taken a lot of this away. Thanks listers for the memories. Susan (Clay) McIsaac Napanee ON Canada