steadicam
has been listed 2 times with 1 comment
blue-tak
has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
blu-tak
has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
biro
has been listed 4 times with 1 comment
spam
has been listed 28 times with 3 comments
mimeograph
has been listed 7 times with 2 comments
bvd
has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
naugahyde
has been listed 4 times with 11 comments
hoover
has been listed 8 times with 7 comments
zamboni
has been listed 17 times with 0 comments
fig newton
has been listed 2 times with 3 comments
q-tip
has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
post-it
has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
klaxon
has been listed 18 times with 4 comments
crisco
has been listed 2 times with 2 comments
ipod
has been listed 16 times with 1 comment
klieg
has been listed 3 times with 1 comment
coke
has been listed 8 times with 18 comments
velcro
has been listed 8 times with 1 comment
google
has been listed 58 times with 8 comments
xerox
has been listed 10 times with 0 comments
trojans
has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
jell-o
has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
tabasco
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band-aid
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kleenex
has been listed 9 times with 1 comment
zeppelin
has been listed 17 times with 2 comments
Panadol.
I thought it was cellotape...? Thanks S!
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.
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.
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.
Spam!
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.
In the United States, too--at least in my neck of the woods.
Hoover is standard in the UK for a vacuum cleaner.
antonomasia when a trademark is used as a generic term.
How 'bout zamboni? (Thanks to Collage's "Hodgepodge" list.)
BVDs and fig newtons
Oooh, with the purple ink that smelled good?
Guess I just showed my age. ;-)
mimeograph (for all you teachers of a certain age out there.) ;-P
Oh, and Q-tips!
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.
There's also that. I don't like it enough either. ;)
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.
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.
Klaxon *used* to be a trade name, I believe.
Coke. Tampax. And iPod, damn near.