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- From: benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Things go better with cola-flavored soft drinks
- Message-ID: <28498@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:52:17 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.213151.6354@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Nov17.233643.27443@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> <By2Ay4.5rF@techbook.com>
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- In article <By2Ay4.5rF@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
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- >kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com writes:
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- >>From the Oxford Companion to the English Language ("Trademark"):
- >> Everyday words of English that were once trademarks (some now
- >> universal, some more common in one variety of English than
- >> another, some dated, all commonly written without an initial
- >> capital) include aspirin, band-aid, cellophane, celluloid,
- >> cornflakes, dictaphone, escalator, granola, hoover, kerosene,
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- >
- >1. Aspirin has only lost its tm status in the US. In other countries
- >it's still a trademark.
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- Was aspirin a trademark?
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- Also, was corn-flakes a trademark. I was under the impression that Mr
- Kellogg forgot to register it, which is why all other brands are still
- called cornflakes. Rice Krispies (Uk only???) are only made by Kelloggs,
- other brands have to attribute alternative names as a trademark exists,
- but cornflakes don't.
-
- Ben Hambidge.
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