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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Things go better with cola-flavored soft drinks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.220010.9734@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 22:00:10 GMT
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- In article <97508@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >In article <Bxnx3p.3w1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tdlg9831@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tracey Dianne Layng) writes:
- >>Yes, Coke is a trademark, but people will say it anyway. It's just like
- >>kleenex. Kleenex is a trademark, but I never hear people say "Give me a facial
- >>tissue."
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- Some people do say "tissue." "Facial" seems excessive, though...
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- >Or: "I think I'll have some more of that cherry-flavored gelatin dessert."
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- In England, it's just "jelly."
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- >Or: "I have a hangnail. Do you have any self-adhesive plastic bandages?"
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- Brandnamed in other languages, too. Leukoplast in German...household
- glue is Uhu in German, too.
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- Some people xerox, others copy.
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- >On the other hand, I was surprised to hear my British friends talk about
- >"hoovering" the living room floor.
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- Imagine the struggle to get them to switch over from Bisseling it!
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- Roger
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