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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Saturday, June 7, 2003, 6:53
Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:16:02PM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote: >> >> >>> Seeing as fountain pens are always fountain pens and felt-tip pens are >>> always textas >>> >>> >> >> ??? Where the heck does "texta/er" come from? >> >> > Trademark again. Some company named Texta makes textas/texters. So do > other companies, but it doesn't matter who makes them: they're always > textas (like bandaids are always bandaids, eskis (chilly bins/coolers) > are always eskis and gladwrap[1] (clear plastic foodcovering film > thingy) is always gladwrap). (Except that when other companies make such > things, they give them different names, obviously.) > > [1]: Well... the company name is Glad and the product is Wrap, but it's > pronounced as one word (i.e. /gl&:dZr&p/). They also make a lot of other > things with Glad as the first part of their name e.g. Glad Bags (big > rubbish bags), but have not had the same success in getting those names > a part of the language.
Pretty much the same situation as "Saran Wrap" over here. Same stuff too.