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October 15, 2015 – It’s funny how we use brand names instead of item descriptor, maybe we do it more here in Canada, I’m not sure.
Examples include:
– Q-tips rather than cotton swabs
– Bandaids instead of bandages
– Kleenex not tissue
– Tupperware rather than plastic storage container
– Scotch tape, Duct tape….
I’m sure there are others, but those are the ones off the top of my head at the moment.
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Xerox. Though maybe not as often these days. I had to get used to people calling bandages ‘plasters’ in Thailand. Sounded like a cast to me
Hans wrote Aspirin but I had to delete the entire post because the first attempt to post didn’t go through right 🙁
Which then leads to Tylenol instead of acetaminophen….
Aspirin, Tylenol, Advil…I say the drug name and get funny looks sometimes
Carol Davidson you sure it’s from that?
Lol wellllll…..
Velcro!
What else would you call that stuff though? Does it even have a generic name?
hook and loop fastener.
Kirk just told me…hook-and-loop
I have a citation…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
Popsicles.
Post-it!
Kleenex. Windsurfer.
Google
The biggest of them all!
All of these! Also ChapStick.
Yes!
Vaseline.
Ski-Do…altho that isn’t used as much any more. Sea-Do
We had one of the original big, yello, mono-ski Ski-dos, so yes, they are all ski-dos to me 🙂
Motorcycle. Even Harleys use the term!
I know, right?
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Plasters = bandaids or bandages – bandages in UK are big white material strips that you “bandage” up the wound with!
Xerox…