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I s'pose there's a difference between 'common usage' and 'generic', but I'd argue the case about a few of these. Pampers is very much the brand, surely? Unless asking specifically for the latter, new parents only really talk of either 'nappies' or 'diapers', don't they? ('Diaper' was the inventor's name though, was it not? In which case, add that.)
I can remember hearing the trade name Elastoplast used on a kids' TV show (ie, instead of 'plaster') in the seventies and being fairly surprised, given the hoo-ha about surreptitious advertising on television programmes back then.
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Our facilities managers get stroppy here if I use the term "portakabin" to describe our temporary buildings, as portakabin is indeed a brand name (and not the brand we use either). The only problem is, use of it as a descriptor is so ingrained that if you use their preferred term - modular building - none of the staff know what the hell you're talking about.
Mrs b has started using the terms "iPhone" and "smartphone", and "iPad" and "tablet" interchangeably. As I regard Apple as a dangerous cargo cult, I'm not in agreement.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostIn Hungarian /Romanian "pampers" is the commonly used term for all disposable nappies
Originally posted by Logan Mountstuart View PostSellotape (sticky back plastic).
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Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View PostPortakabin (as Private Eye loved to remind us)Last edited by Bored Of Education; 15-11-2018, 20:38.
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