Cotton swabs. Exactly 0 people call them that in normal conversation.English is not my first language. I don't even know else to refer to Q-tips in English.
Cotton swabs. Exactly 0 people call them that in normal conversation.English is not my first language. I don't even know else to refer to Q-tips in English.
Cotton swabs. Exactly 0 people call them that in normal conversation.
We always called them cotton buds in the UK. Never had the Q-Tip brand as far as I'm aware.
Oh yeah all the classics. Kleenex, Koolaid, Band-aid. I have some Mexican friends who call all soda Coke.
Oh and for people who don't know, not all Velcro stuff is velcro. Velcro is a company name, not the name of the hook and loop fasteners.
List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia
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Trademarked by Friedrich Bayer & Co in 1898.[16][17] Trademark lost in some nations in the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919.[18]
I refuse to call it hook and loop
I feel like medicine is cheating but I'm gonna say medicine too... for regular stuff outside of like, insulin and Ibuprofen (Advil/Motrin) I'd say that most people just refer to whatever brand name there is. No one is realistically going to say "acetaminophen" when you can just say Tylenol
Down in NZ we called it Glad wrap. No idea why that specific brand was popularized here but a bit funny plastic-wrap seemingly gets co-opted via the brand name everywhere.
We always called them cotton buds in the UK. Never had the Q-Tip brand as far as I'm aware.
Kind of related , we'll say Jack and Coke and we just mean whisky and cola .
This is a good one!
The treaty of Versailles was wild. They were just throwing in all sorts of random crap.
Having grown up in the UK, mainly Hoover.
But we also have Stanley Knife and Tipp-Ex as a few others.
I came to post this. That's what we call them here in RI too!
Bahahaha I had no Idea Tater Tots was one of them. I guess that's been genericized forever.
Probably very french canadian specific but when I was a kid, practically everyone called a refridgerator a "frigidaire". Still say that to this day but it's not as common around me.
Heck, it took me till my mid-20s to realize it was the actual brand, it never crossed my mind until I noticed XD
This one is completely bizarre to me. There are a thousand brands, and have been since before I was born, and I'm old. I might think of Kirby or ElectroLux before Hoover
I don't think Superglue is a brand name as you can buy any generic type with that name?Superglue
Sharpie only if it's really permanent marker
Scotch tape, partly because other brands often weren't as good over the years, so I hoped the buyer would get the brand name
I've always hated this because Gundams are a very specific type of mech within the Gundam series, whereas all mechs in it are actually refered to generically as "mobile suits".
Ha, yeah I use gunpla as a catchall myself.I've always hated this because Gundams are a very specific type of mech within the Gundam series, whereas all mechs in it are actually refered to generically as "mobile suits".
At the risk of sounding like a hippocrite my own example is Gunpla for robot models. Yeah "plamo" is the neutral generic term but I just like the way Gunpla sounds in comparison.
Having grown up in the UK, mainly Hoover.
But we also have Stanley Knife and Tipp-Ex as a few others.
a person of taste
This is a case I think where if someone actually watches it they always call them mobile suits, but if they're only cursory familiar by say just knowing someone who watches the series or builds kits then they're almost always Gundams.Ha, yeah I use gunpla as a catchall myself.
"Gundams" was used by my wife and youngest son back when I was watching and building more. I stopped having the energy to "ackshually" lol.