Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

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.