Kleenex, Band-Aid, & Jello
Joi Ball
>
> Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
> generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
> "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
> brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
>
> Some of the others we've already come up with are:
>
> Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
> Vaseline
> Jeep
> Coke
>
> Can anyone add to our list?
Xerox and Band-aids, of course.
Laura Gillenwater
generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
"Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
Some of the others we've already come up with are:
Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
Vaseline
Jeep
Coke
Can anyone add to our list?
Laura
ma...@ix.netcom.com
Let us not forget "Xerox".
Amanda King
: Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
Q-tips
Xerox
Fritos
Kool-Aid
Saran Wrap
These are all that I (and my roommate) could come up with on short
notice. Any others?
Amanda King Wake '97
leva...@usa.pipeline.com
>Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
>generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
>"Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
>brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
>
>Some of the others we've already come up with are:
>
>Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
>Vaseline
>Jeep
>Coke
How about:
Post-Its
Xerox
Tylenol
Magic Marker
-
leva...@usa.pipeline.com (Eric J. LeVasseur)
"This is a puzzling world" - George Eliot
That Ken Guy
% Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
% generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
% "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
% brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
% Some of the others we've already come up with are:
% Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
% Vaseline
% Jeep
% Coke
Thermos and Zipper are a couple that most people don't know.
Stetson, too... I'm sure some people use it to refer to 'just any' hat...
Ken
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= = = - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = =
And like THAT... he's gone.
David Kaleida
>Laura Gillenwater wrote:
>>
>> Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that
people
say,
>>
>>
>> Jeep
>> Coke
>>
>> Can anyone add to our list?
>
How 'bout IBM & La-Z-boy?
Glenn Channell
>Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
>generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
>"Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
>brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
>Some of the others we've already come up with are:
>Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
>Vaseline
>Jeep
>Coke
>Can anyone add to our list?
>Laura
Also, POPSICLE is actually a brand name
Kim Wilkinson
: For some unknown reason, Laura Gillenwater (twor...@pop3.nfi.com) spake thus:
: % Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
: % generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
: % "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
: % brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
: % Some of the others we've already come up with are:
: % Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
: % Vaseline
: % Jeep
: % Coke
: Thermos and Zipper are a couple that most people don't know.
: Stetson, too... I'm sure some people use it to refer to 'just any' hat...
I believe "cellophane" was also originally a brand name.
: Ken
: --
: C. Kenneth Stern * Yale/Calhoun College '97 * Phone 203-776-5544
: WWW: http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~ckstern * Email: ken....@yale.edu
: Calhoun Computing Assistant * A E Pi Brother * All-Around Nice Guy
: For currently open sessions finger cks...@pantheon.cis.yale.edu
: = = = - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = =
: And like THAT... he's gone.
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>snip!
>Some of the others we've already come up with are:
>Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
>Vaseline
>Jeep
>Coke
>Can anyone add to our list?
>Laura
How 'bout "scotch tape"?
Marcos Fernandes
: In article <4jcrbl$r...@alpha.pcix.com>, Laura Gillenwater writes:
:
: >Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
: >generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
: >"Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
: >brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
: >
: >Some of the others we've already come up with are:
: >
: >Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
: >Vaseline
: >Jeep
: >Coke
:
: How about:
:
: Post-Its
: Xerox
: Tylenol
: Magic Marker
:
: -
How about
Tippex
Hoover
Marcos
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GregS70
acid.
Jeffrey Turner
Laura Gillenwater wrote:
> Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
> generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
> "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
> brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
> Some of the others we've already come up with are:
> Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
> Vaseline
> Jeep
> Coke
> Can anyone add to our list?
Well, aspirin was a brand name. I don't think anyone's mentioned
Life Savers (R).
--Jeff Turner
Jean Sunby
Laura Gillenwater (twor...@pop3.nfi.com) wrote:
: Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
: generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
: "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
: brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
: Some of the others we've already come up with are:
: Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
: Vaseline
: Jeep
: Coke
: Can anyone add to our list?
: Laura
EffEwe
Kisses, K
James Froeming
Band-aid
Formica
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Marcos Fernandes
: Q-tips, Scotch tape, TV guide, Roto-rooter, levelors... I used to know a TON of these!
: Kisses, K
TV guide ???
surely a guide to what is on TV will obviously be called a TV guide
I think in some cases someone has used the "obvious" name first and so has
bagged it as a trade name - I don't think necessarily that we have come to know
the products because of this, rather that we would always have called them
this but someone got to it first.
Oh and since you mentioned Scotch-tape, was Sellotape not also a brand name
once.
Marcos
mert...@sable.ox.ac.uk
Eric W DeSilva
company that makes those things), Coke (at least south 'o the
Mason-Dixon line)... Mebbe Levi's, M&Ms?
Michael Fickenscher
} Laura Gillenwater (twor...@pop3.nfi.com) wrote:
} : Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
} : generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
} : "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
} : brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
} : Some of the others we've already come up with are:
} : Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
} : Vaseline
} : Jeep
} : Coke
} Xerox
} Fritos
} Kool-Aid
} Saran Wrap
Romex ( -- too technical maybe? )
.....
Michael Fickenscher Undergraduate Student
mf...@engrs.unl.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering
0014...@bigred.unl.edu University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Gary Russel /ADVISOR L. FAUSETT
>Laura Gillenwater <twor...@pop3.nfi.com> wrote:
>
>>snip!
>
>
>>Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
>>Vaseline
>>Jeep
>>Coke
>
>
>
>>Laura
>
>
>
>
I've heard "Frigidaire." What do you think of someone with a
Frigidaire oven and a Hotpoint refrigerator?
"Icebox" is sometimes used for refrigerator, but that's beside the
point.
Michael Fickenscher
} Amanda King (kin...@wfu.edu) thought so much as to write:
} } Laura Gillenwater (twor...@pop3.nfi.com) wrote:
} } : Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
} } : generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
} } : "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
} } : brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
} } : Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
} } : Vaseline
} } : Jeep
} } : Coke
} } Xerox
} } Fritos
} } Kool-Aid
} } Saran Wrap
} Romex ( -- too technical maybe? )
Bank-in-the-Box (only seen ATM's called this in parts of the MidWest)
Reader
Fickenscher) writes:
>
>Amanda King (kin...@wfu.edu) thought so much as to write:
>} Laura Gillenwater (twor...@pop3.nfi.com) wrote:
>} : Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that
people
>} : generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we
often say,
>} : "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by
another
>} : brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
>} : Some of the others we've already come up with are:
>} : Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
>} : Vaseline
>} : Jeep
>} : Coke
>} Q-tips
>} Xerox
>} Fritos
>} Kool-Aid
>} Saran Wrap
>
>Romex ( -- too technical maybe? )
whiteout
reynolds wrap
Andrew H. Lory
> generically refer to by a single brand's name.
I once knew the name for those kinds of words. I no longer remember it.
Was it a figment of my imagination, or does someone out there know the
what it is? The word I'm thinking of is not "generic".
Randy Atlas
Randy
(I'm proud to say that I don't have a Web site or a fancy signature,
and I have nothing to sell !!)
David Howse
>In <315A3E...@inna.net> Joi Ball <jb...@inna.net> writes:
>>
>>Laura Gillenwater wrote:
>>>
>>> Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that
>people
>>> generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often
>say,
>>> "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
>>> brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
>>>
>>> Some of the others we've already come up with are:
>>>
>>> Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
>>> Vaseline
>>> Jeep
>>> Coke
>>>
>>> Can anyone add to our list?
>>
>>Xerox and Band-aids, of course.
>How 'bout IBM & La-Z-boy?
I believe Zipper and Asprin both started off as brand-names...
David
Kim Wilkinson
: Mack trucks, Ace Bandages, White Out, Zamboni (or is there just one
: company that makes those things), Coke (at least south 'o the
: Mason-Dixon line)... Mebbe Levi's, M&Ms?
Zambonis are indeed made by only one company; started by
the Zamboni family (and might still be owned by them).
They're not really marketable enough to spur a whole lot
of competition, especially since Zamboni is indeed a
well-known "ice paver" name. (Especially after the
famous-and-played-at-every-Canadian-hockey-rink-at-least-
once-every-half-hour song: "I Wanna Drive The Zamboni". )
And the doggone things last half of forever.
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>> Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
>> generically refer to by a single brand's name.
I haven't seen Escalator mentioned yet...
Dwight Floyd
: } } : Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
: } } : brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
Here's a couple more:
Velcro
Jacuzzi
Jet Ski
Walkman
Chapstick
Dave Tong
>
> From visits down south I learned that Bud is synonymous with beer.
>
Don't see the connection, myself.
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Joi Ball
I didn't know WINDBREAKER was originally a brand name for a lightweight golf
jacket.
Jg135
wizard of what?
Bill Willoughby
*verbs*, even when referring to another company. The only two products I
can think of in this category are:
Fed Ex
Xerox
"Fax" would not count, because it is not a company, or a specific
product. Q-tips, Band-Aids and Saran Wrap would not count because they
are used more often as nouns ... though you could force them to be verbs,
I suppose.
But I'm thinking of something like "Fed Ex this package to London" even
if you are using DHL, or "Xerox this for everyone in the department" even
if the copier is made by Canon.
Bill Willoughby
Michael Fickenscher wrote:
>
> Amanda King (kin...@wfu.edu) thought so much as to write:
> } Laura Gillenwater (twor...@pop3.nfi.com) wrote:
> } : Some folks at the office were trying to come up with products that people
> } : generically refer to by a single brand's name. For example, we often say,
> } : "Kleenex" when even if we are referring to a tissue made by another
> } : brand. We usually say "Jello" rather than gelatin dessert.
> } : Some of the others we've already come up with are:
> } : Fridgidare (a particularly NYC thing, we think)
> } : Vaseline
> } : Jeep
> } : Coke
Reader
writes:
>Jean Sunby wrote:
>>
>> From visits down south I learned that Bud is synonymous with beer.
>>
>
>Don't see the connection, myself.
Bud = Budweiser
Lynn Johannesen
: In <3162E8...@Eng.Sun.com> Dave Tong <david...@Eng.Sun.com>
: Bud = Budweiser
Yes, that part I'm sure he understood. The missing link is between
Budweiser and beer. Have you ever tasted the stuff?
And david.tong, see what happens when you leave out the :) Some
people will believe anything.
manz...@callamer.com
> In <3162E8...@Eng.Sun.com> Dave Tong <david...@Eng.Sun.com>
> writes:
> >
> >Jean Sunby wrote:
> >>
> >> From visits down south I learned that Bud is synonymous with beer.
> >>
> >
> >Don't see the connection, myself.
>
> Bud = Budweiser
Denise L. Marks
What about the most obvious one of all -- Xerox.
Just my .02.
Denise
James A. Perry
and have her tell you she is "windexing." We have always
teased her for having made the word into a verb.
R. Perry
Reader
that bring back warm and toasty feelings. I know really strange.
-Reader
John Warr
x
x In <3162E8...@Eng.Sun.com> Dave Tong <david...@Eng.Sun.com>
x writes:
x x
x xJean Sunby wrote:
x xx
x xx From visits down south I learned that Bud is synonymous with beer.
x xx
xx
xx Don't see the connection, myself.
x
x Bud = Budweiser
Must be a bit like making love in a punt then.........
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I've occasionally wondered if Consuela (FamilyGuy) would be okay with any brand of Lemon Pledge.
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