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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Things go better with
- Message-ID: <857.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:10:00 GMT
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- TO: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
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- GMW>Apparently in the late 19th century, it became quite common to call a
- >portable camera a "Kodak," or at least ie was popular until Eastman Kodak
- >ran an ad compaign that went something like, "If it isn't an Eastman, it
- >isn't a Kodak."
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- Somehow this reminds me of the story about the Benz motor car company,
- which named an entire production run after a young lady named Mercedes,
- the daughter of a major customer. The name stuck, and now almost nobody
- remembers that the car company was Benz, not Mercedes.
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