Trade names in common use.

[adams house cat]

This may have been done before. There are a lot of trade names that have entered common usage over the years.

Hoover
Cup-A- Soup
Pot Noodle
Pop rivets
Aqualumg
Pop Tarts

Gotta be dozens of others.

[ursus arctos]

Kleenex
Xerox

[Southport Zeb]

Heroin
Tippex
Sellotape

[Lang Spoon]

Viagra
Prozac
Scotch Tape (US)

[WOM]

Linoleum and Zipper, I believe.

[treibeis]

Selters (Germany)
Tempo (Germany)

[Paul S]

Mini

[elguapo4]

Google
Tannoy
Aspirin

[Fussbudget]

Polaroid
Walkman

Pop rivets
Aqualumg

What and what now?

[Nefertiti2]

Google.

[Fussbudget]

Nef, I assume that this was your contribution to the thread rather than addressed to me, but as it happens I did and I'm none the wiser.

[ursus arctos]

Aspirin
Tylenol (US)
Advil (US)

I share Fussbudget's "huh"?

[San Bernardhinault]

Nurofen (UK)
Durex
Pyrex (not related)
Teflon

[EIM]

Coke.

[andrew7610]

Tupperware
Lycra

[caja-dglh]

I feel odd that I understand ahc. Pop (TM) is the brand behind pop rivets. Aqualung (sp) is the common phrase for underwater breathing apparatus.

[adams house cat]

Aqualung was trademarked. Jethro Tull were sued for using it as the title of their album.

Pop rivets was/is a trade name. I used to know a fellow who used to sell engineering sundries (screws, washers, all sorts) from a van for a company in the UK. He told me once that they were instructed not to use the term 'Pop' rivets as it was trademarked.

[WOM]

Durex
Pyrex (not related)

You've never seen me discover vintage Pyrex at a garage sale.

[Fussbudget]

Nylon
Crimplene
AstroTurf
Perspex
Plexiglas
Bakelite
Lucite

I feel like a bit of a dunce, but I'm still not sure what a pop rivet is. Is it only used by tradesmen, or is it something that a normal well-rounded responsible adult (i.e. not me) is supposed to know about?

[ursus arctos]

A bunch of these must be UK specific

[ursus arctos]

I also have no idea what a pop rivet is.

[Fussbudget]

Plexiglas might just be French actually, people more often call it Perspex in the UK.

Crimplene is most likely UK-only and fairly retro at that.

[Nefertiti2]

Nef, I assume that this was your contribution to the thread rather than addressed to me, but as it happens I did and I'm none the wiser.

yes site not updating for me- meanwhile elguapo had also got there first.

[ursus arctos]

We call it plexiglass as well, and did call it crimplene when that was a thing.

[WOM]

I also have no idea what a pop rivet is.

What are you using to fasten two sheets of thin-gauge steel together?