can you buy licks for 60 us cents?

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paki lista is what we ask the vegetable seller in the wet market when we buy assorted vegetables of varying amounts from one stall. they will tear off a page from a spiral notebook and list down the names of the vegetables and their prices. with the lockdown, some are selling directly to houses and one item in the list made me giggle: licks 30 pesos (60 US cents) it should be leeks, of course (which is different from leaks, too!) the rest of the list was in filipino like sili (long green chili), kalamansi (calamondin), and kamatis (tomato). i noticed he wrote kabute (for the oyster mushroom). me, i would write mushroom. my list, notes, reminders tend to be a mix of english and filipino. he also wrote kiat2x for kiat-kiat or clementines. that's another habit we have. we tend to write 2x or x2 for repeated words or number of times. for example, a doctor might write 'after meals' in the prescription but we will say 3x a day or 3 times a day. do you have similar quirks?