Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 7, 2003, 3:15 |
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:04:29PM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> 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.)
Sounds similar to Sharpie (permanent magic marker pens).
> [1]: Well... the company name is Glad and the product is Wrap
Yeah, we have Glad Wrap over here, too, and many folks use it generically.
But lots of folks also just call it "plastic wrap".
Some also use "Reynolds Wrap" for alumin[i]um foil.
-Mark