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A list of 51 words by chained_bear.

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  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    Coke. Tampax. And iPod, damn near.

    February 4, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    Klaxon *used* to be a trade name, I believe.

    February 5, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the list trade-names

    Weeeeell... I was thinking of words we use as substitute nouns (or verbs, as the case may be). I don't know that anyone says "Got a tampax?" when they're in a public restroom (for example). You're right about iPod and Coke though.

    February 5, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    You kidding? I hear that all over the place. Tampax almost made my list of words I don't like, except I don't even like it enough to put it on the list of words I don't like.

    February 5, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the list trade-names

    There's also that. I don't like it enough either. ;)

    February 5, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    Here are a few: linoleum, aspirin, crock pot, laundromat...oh, and bikini. And heroin--originally a pain reliever made by Bayer, described as a "heroine" in the war against pain.

    February 16, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    Oh, and Q-tips!

    February 17, 2007

  • oroboros commented on the list trade-names

    mimeograph (for all you teachers of a certain age out there.) ;-P

    February 17, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    Oooh, with the purple ink that smelled good?

    Guess I just showed my age. ;-)

    February 17, 2007

  • amcd56 commented on the list trade-names

    BVDs and fig newtons

    February 17, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    How 'bout zamboni? (Thanks to Collage's "Hodgepodge" list.)

    February 21, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang commented on the list trade-names

    antonomasia when a trademark is used as a generic term.

    February 25, 2007

  • yarb commented on the list trade-names

    Hoover is standard in the UK for a vacuum cleaner.

    November 12, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    In the United States, too--at least in my neck of the woods.

    November 12, 2007

  • chained_bear commented on the list trade-names

    I usually hear Hoover in the context of eating something really fast, like, "Damn! Chris hoovered the pizza already!"

    In which usage, I think it's hilarious.

    November 12, 2007

  • Prolagus commented on the list trade-names

    Spam!

    July 13, 2008

  • bilby commented on the list trade-names

    Biro I hear too often. Re-useable adhesive putty is referred to as Blu-Tak by everyone I know, though I'm not sure if it's Australian or international.

    July 13, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list trade-names

    Wow, bilby, those are strikingly Australian!

    re: spelling, I found two main spellings of blu-tak/blue-tak, so I listed them both.

    Thanks for the additions, guys.

    July 13, 2008

  • sionnach commented on the list trade-names

    Hmmm. klaxon and klieg seem so delightfully early 20th century, don't they? More 1908 thatn 2008. A simpler era, when the young lady you were walking out with was a Gibson girl.

    (Not to be confused with those new-fangled Kelly girls).

    zipper, escalator, tarmac, thermos, nylon, yo-yo, trampoline, jacuzzi, polaroid, styrofoam, bakelite.

    We say biro in Ireland as well. But Scotch tape is known as sellotape.

    July 13, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list trade-names

    I thought it was cellotape...? Thanks S!

    July 14, 2008

  • plethora commented on the list trade-names

    Panadol.

    July 14, 2008

  • bilby commented on the list trade-names

    Thermos.

    December 5, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list trade-names

    Crud. I must have missed a ton of comments here--sionnach was the first to point out thermos... Sheesh. I need to keep up with list maintenance.

    December 5, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list trade-names

    Here are a few oldies: moxie, Ouija, Allen wrench, brassiere, Play-Doh, dry ice, weedeater, granola, jungle gym, hula hoop, spandex, lycra, astroturf, rolodex, and frisbee. Newer ones: FedEx, tupperware, teflon, DayTimer. Somebody stop me!

    December 5, 2008

  • Prolagus commented on the list trade-names

    Hacky Sack?

    August 28, 2009

  • dontcry commented on the list trade-names

    Frisbee? Did anyone say that yet? *too lazy to look*

    August 28, 2009

  • Prolagus commented on the list trade-names

    Extremely lazy: four lines under your comment would've been enough!

    August 28, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list trade-names

    I took umbrage at your laziness to look up Frisbee, dontcry, but then started flinging around a pie tin with the name Frisbee on it and forgot all about it. Inside my house.

    August 28, 2009

  • kalayzich commented on the list trade-names

    U.S. Patent 0,621,195, "Navigable balloon". 14 March 1899. Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin.

    That zeppelin was referred to as a Navigable balloon.

    August 15, 2012

  • kalayzich commented on the list trade-names

    Trojan was a contraceptive sheath

    First registered as a proprietary term in the U.S. on 26 Apr. 1927.

    August 15, 2012

  • kalayzich commented on the list trade-names

    BVD is a brand of men's underwear,

    August 15, 2012