Topic of the Week:
List products/things/anything that are brand names that we have accepted as their name.
Examples:
Kleenex = facial tissue
Scotch Tape = tape
Band aid = adhesive strip
Frisbee = flying disk
Xerox = photo copy machine
Post It Notes= sticky paper
Googling = searching something on the web

Why do we as a society accept things like this?
List some others I haven't mentioned.
Opinions! Comments! Answers! Good topic? Bad?
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how about TIVO ???!!
ReplyDeleteI use this all the time.
Fed-ex. McD? Coke?
ReplyDeleteTampax
ReplyDeleteWow, that's all I could think of. Lol
NICE tivo is a good one!
ReplyDeleteZamboni and Velcro are brand names
GREAT INTERACTIVE TOPIC!!!
LOL very true for tampax!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting :)
It reminds me of how my grandma used to always call all refrigerators "Fridgedaires".
ReplyDeleteIt's different where I live now then where I grew up, but here some people call all sodas "Coke."
Oh yeah, Coke is a big one in the south. My relatives in the midwest call it "pop". Nope, here any kind of soda is a "coke".
ReplyDeleteQ-tip. They're technically cotton swabs.
ReplyDeleteTRUE! haha i didnt think of q-tip.... although i think it might be funny to call them cotton swabs..but thats just me :)
ReplyDeletehaha that is too funny! I totally agree, haha.
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