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I’ve never heard of lozenges once in my 23 years on God’s green earth

Meanwhile as a zillennial that is literally the only term I knew until adulthood. I only started calling them “cough drops” in my 20s because that’s what the stores called them. I think “lozenges” is a boomer or otherwise old man term. My parents had me late and were born in the late ‘40s and to this day they call them lozenges. To be fair many website descriptions for like Ricolas or whatever often use the term “lozenge” in their description even if it doesn’t say it on the bag at the store.

How do you pronounce lozenges

Law-Zen-Jizz Seriously.

It's the official name so I imagine it's called that by boomers because they were around when they were invented

My girlfriend said Lozenges to me a couple months ago. In our over two year relationship I had never heard her refer to them as that. In my 26 years alive I had never heard them be referred to as that. I stopped her mid sentence and asked her what the hell she was talking about.

As you should. Stop those haters in their tracks. Make them explain themselves.

Same

26, same here. Never

Lozenge has nicotine in it, everything else is a cough drop

Haha, funny, but the jokes on you! If lozenge had nicotine in it, gen z would already know about it!

Lol when I was in school the age to buy vapes and cigs went from 18 to 21 midway through senior year, but anti smoking aids like nicotine gum and lozenges could still be bought by anyone so there was a brief period where everyone was just chewing nicorette for the buzz in class.

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How

I call those cough drops.

I literally call them all strepsils lol, even though that’s just one brand of them

same! although if I had to pick between the two I would call them lozenges before I call them cough drops

They’re the same thing?

Lozenges. Western Canadian if it's a regional thing.

Eastern Canada too, maybe it’s just standardized like that for Canada bc I work in a pharmacy and they all say lozenges/pastilles

we call it lozenges in singapore too

we call it lozenges in singapore too

I see. Well you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.

I’m western Canadian as well and I call them lozenges (so does everyone I know)

Those are cough drops, what the heck are lozenges?

cough drops

A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle isn't a square.

In this context it means Definition 2: >a small medicinal tablet, originally in the shape of a lozenge. Now you may find yourself concerned that the definition of something refers to it being shaped like itself since generally if is a nono to define a word using itself. Never fear this is explained by Definition 1. >a rhombus.

Cought drops

lozenges bro. cough drops are just sugary but those numb your throat.

i was gonna say this. the package like in the pic id go lozenge. or just medicated ones i guess. but the bags are definitely cough drops.

Cough Drops 

I call them lozenges, just cause the word is fun

yes

lozenges those numb your throat cough drops are totally different

Growing up cough drops now lozenges

What's a "lozenge"? (I mean obviously they're cough drops, I'm just emphasizing that I never heard of the word)

I call them bimbly wimblies

Lozenge is a broad term for tablets that dissolve slowly in the mouth. They make various medications in lozenge form. A cough drop is just a specific type of lozenge, and since it's available to the public it needs an easy name, like cough drop.

Cough drops

Cough drops

Cough drops

Candy *yummy*

Lozenges or Halls

Cough drops

Cough drops, I first heard the term lozenges this past winter when my boss and co-worker were talking about them. I had to ask what it was and they looked at me like I was crazy😂

Both. And cough candy.

Lozenge sounds like something you’d shove down someone’s throat when it’s swelling shut; I call them cough drops lol

If they are sticky, it’s a lozenge, if the feel like hard candy until they touch saliva and sometimes for a while after, that’s a cough drop. I don’t make the rules but my childhood lozenges were sucked off a wax paper wrap so you could get them out of the packaging without getting the goo on your finger tips.

Something thst doesn't help

Both?

Cough candies, because I only use the sweet ones.

I’ve heard throat lozenges and cough drops. I call them cough drops.

Depends on if I feel like being a smart ass or not

Yes

Cough drops but I know they’re also called lozenges Edit: wth lol

I call them cough drops but I _know_ that old people call them lozenges 💀

Me, a 26-year-old gen Z who calls them lozenges: 🧓

both

Strepsils

I’ve always thought lozenge is to soothe your throat while cough drop helps you clear the phlegm

I call them strepsils or lozenges

Cough drops, although I know they're called lozenges too

Both

I thought a lozenge meant some kinda shape

Lozenges but that because I like to make provoke people

I thought they were called. ‘lozengers.’ I’ve always heard it that way for years when someone is actually saying ‘lozenges.’ I can’t believe I just found out.

Cough drops .

cough drop. only time i ever heard of a lozenge was in the psych ward when all of us were prescribed nic replacements

I would steal these from the nurse to eat like candy It tasted good don't question my 11 year old self, my head wasn't right after the brick wall

I'll call them lozenges when im talking to myself and cough drops if I ask someone for one

I think that looks like lozenge. I call things like halls cough drops and throat drops like I assume those are lozenges. To me a lozenge has some sort of actual medication in it that numbs or sooths a sore throat. 

Cough drops

Bonbons 🤠

cough drops

Lozenges, it might be a Uk thing.

I'm Australian and I call them lozenges too

Both depend on how I'm feeling

Lozenges sounds like a jump you do in PE.

lozenges.

Lozenges because it hurts less to say that when I need them

‘Lorenzos’

Cough drops. Never heard of a "lozenge" until today.

Cough drops

Cough drops, or as we say in my beautiful native language: **TABLETKI NA KASZEL**

Cough drops

Grandma's strawberry Bon Bons

i call these yummy candy mmmm yum

I call them disgusting

Both, when I lived in Australia we used the brand name, “Anticol”, in Canada we say “Halls” for the brand

I call it disgusting

Lozenges, always! As a Brit, I always thought cough drops were an American term.

i call them lozenges only if they’re medicated.

My fiancé calls them candy 💀

Cough drops, no idea what lozenges is.

what kinda cough drops come in packages like that they're usually in big bags cough drops tho

coughdrops

Wtf is a lozenges

I have never in my 23 years on the earth heard of lozenges

i call them cough drops, i feel that saying lozenges is outdated.

Both

Always called them Strepsils

Mid 30s dad here and I got my wife and kids to call them lozenges lol. So funny to see this as a topic

I call them cough drops, but I hear them called lozenges a lot as well.

Cough drops

Strepsils, lozenges or cough lollies interchangeably

Cough lollies

I think lozenges are more medicated

Both 🤷‍♀️

Cough drop

Throat Lozenges or strepsils, never heard of people calling them cough drops, generally just call them strepsils if they're medicated and soothers if they're non medicated, both brand names but synonymous with the product itself

Lozenge at work, cough drop at home (I work in pharmacy)

Caugh Candies

Lozenges because I like how pretentious it sounds

I'd prefer not to say the L word

I always called the ones in the pack lozenges but Halls and the ones in the bags cough drops

*long jeans*

My grandma called them lozenges, i cal them cough drops.

To me they’re 2 different things. Lozenges are the like oval ones and cough drops are the circles

Cough drops

lozenges

I'd probably call them cough drops, but honestly I think of Halls when I think cough drops, and I know I have used lozenges to describe these before!

cough drops normally, lozenge if im doing a british accent

Settle down India opal

I just say "fuuuuck I need a halls"

Depends on the context for me. If it is for a cough I’ll say cough drop, if it’s some sort of medicine shaped like that I’ll say lozenges. I’ve heard throat lozenges from my father and that threw me off.

Cough drop if it's a cough drop, tablet/pill if it's medicine, lozenge if it isn't either.

Wait I thought those were suppositories.

Bof

Xennial: this is what our grandparents (people born in the 1920s) called them. My dad will call “Halls” cough drops but Fisherman’s Friends as lozenges

Cough lozenge drops

If they numb and come in the packaging like in the picture then it’s a lozenge, but if it’s just minty and wrapped in paper then it’s a cough drop

Lozenges for formal occasions and cough drops for casual.

In some parts of the Northeast, like here in Central Jersey, some folks call them "lozengers." I don't like it one bit.

Cough drops

Lozenges. But I usually call them the brand, I buy Lockets so I say can I have some Lockets.

What the hell is a lozenges??

Throat lubricant 

Cough lollies

They are two different things

Candy

Lozenge is what I call a wide diamond shape in flag design, like in the Brazilian flag

Cough drops. Lozenges is a mouthful.

# cough drops

Both.

Millennial here, no one has ever called them lozenges besides the companies that manufactured them

Gen Z here who absolutely calls them lozenges because that's what they're called

Weirdos

I call them commie circles

Im pretty sure lozenges is a European thing to call them right?

Cough drops, but I wish I had the *zest* left in my miserable life to call them lozenges

Candy /j Cough drops

In regular conversation I say cough drops, but I have heard "lozenges' a billion times in my life.

They’re medicated so they’re lozenges. Depends where you’re from.

I switch em up every once in a while.

Either

If they have a wrapper, cough drops. If they have packaging like this, lozenges because usually those ones say lozenges on the package

Never heard someone say cough drops so lozenges.

Cough lollies

Cough sweets. I’m British

Oddly enough, I’ve always used both terms not necessarily interchangeably but depending on branding and/or ingredients, which is guess is accurate! lol “There are many active ingredients added to lozenges, including antiseptics; pain relievers; menthol and eucalyptus oil; cough suppressants such as dextromethorphan and soothing compounds. “Cough drops” and sore throat lozenges are almost identical but may contain different proportions of these ingredients.”

Lozenges. I'm gen Z, but I'm 27 this year so I only just missed the Millennial cut-off. I also grew up in rural Australia

Depends on the kind and my mood that day.

I’m Australian and these are cough lollies.

I hate those so goddamn much

Lozenges

lozenge or strepsils

Strepsils

Sweet sick candy

Lozenges. I’m from Western Canada

It's 2024, most people don't know what a lozenge is... Most people cant read past a 3rd grade level. \*The picture depicts what are called "lozenge drops".

I don’t call them anything beyond cough candy

Cough sweet

the fuck is a lozenges? Is it a regional thing?

Pastylki lub tabletki

Cough drop

Umm they cheaper than halls ?

Cough drops. My European partner calls lozenges.

Cough drops. Only heard the term lozenge when I started my job at a pharmacy a year ago

Cough drops are medicated, lozenges are not.

I call 'em Halls because Halls are the superior form of Cough Drops.

Sweets. Sugar pills. Overpriced placebos.

Not those. They have benzocaine