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ah but of course  sweets (american: candy) or chocolate. We never say candy. Ever. 
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I used to get an email from a "sweets" store in London,
featured "humbugs". I read about them in a series
of mystery books by Anne Perry, where the main character
used to stop at the corner and buy some on the way home
for his wife. I got the advertisement when I looked it
up on Google, and received it for a year or more. But
never ordered, and thus never tasted them. Are these
candy (er, sweets) licorice????
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no...humbugs are boiled sweets, in various flavours, most notably mint with a toffee bit in the middle and they have stripes  One of my favourite boiled sweets though are bulls-eyes, though I prefer the fruit flavoured ones. Rhubarb and Custards however have changed manufacture and don't taste as good as they used to 
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I really like rhubarb, bet I'd enjoy the latter.
I'd like to try humbugs too. Probably some chain candy
store sells them here.
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ah but of course sweets (american: candy) or chocolate. We never say candy. Ever. But do you say CANDY when it has a capital C? I also like rhubarb....rhubarb and icecream or rhubarb with cereal. Now there's another word that has a silent letter, rhubarb. If spelt rubarb wouldn't it be said the same?
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If spelt rubarb wouldn't it be said the same?
I think so: trying to enunciate rrr-who-barb is way too much work!
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I think the h sound turns ruh into roo...
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Actually, the H is inherited from the Greek. It was lost in the Latin but we stuck it back in, probably when we discovered that it was from Greek.
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If spelt rubarb wouldn't it be said the same?
I think so: trying to enunciate rrr-who-barb is way too much work! I'll bet that if this were the case there would be those who would insist on it.
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ah but of course sweets (american: candy) or chocolate. We never say candy. Ever. I also like rhubarb....rhubarb and icecream or rhubarb with cereal. Now there's another word that has a silent letter, rhubarb. If spelt rubarb wouldn't it be said the same? Perhaps like the World War I song: "K-K-K-Katy" we could make it C-C-C-Candy??
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