Brand names not protected or used anymore by the company’s. Gasoline, Then after a world war Bayer lost the rights to Aspirin and Heroin.
Brand names companies still own : Advil, Tylenol, Valium, Viagra .ect (when they first come out or become popular meds usually have a number of years until generics come out and you won’t notice a difference)
Same with Q tips and bandaids
Xerox really pisses me off as when someone first told me it sounded like an alien, but it was just a photocopier..
My soul and sphincter goes into a spasm every time I hear Americans call them ‘Legos’.
They are Lego bricks.
You get Lego slippers if you stand on them.
We create a Lego model.
Sawzall (though often mis-said/written as “Sawsall” all the way down to “zaw zaw”)
Skil saw (though often mis-said/written as Skill saw)
Airfryer
Yo-Yo
Dry Ice
Thermos
Frisbee
Jumbo Tron
Not as common anymore, but “Cuisinart” used to just refer to food processors…I think they diluted their own brand by diversifying, and not as much by other brands making food processors. I own one Cuisinart product, and it’s a Griddler panini press/griddle/waffle iron thing.
I once heard someone say they took a “Lyft Uber.” I would have given them the benefit of the doubt because they were drunk, but they were also very, very stupid, even when sober.
I used to be a first aider here in the UK, once this American lady came in asking for a Band-Aid, partially due to her thick accent and partially as we was mostly saying “Band-Aid” over and over again it took us, yes more than one qualified first aider, to understand she wanted a plaster. I’ve also heard shop assistant being verbally abused in non-US countries for not having Advil or Tylenol in stock. I suspect this is party due the US healthcare system and medicine advertising.
Here in the UK you often won’t get the same brand of medication each time on prescription. I don’t pay much attention to exactly who made it but for the the last three months my Omeprazole has come from three different manufacturers. The same goes for paracetamol, people won’t often get a specific brand, they’ll get the basic shop brand. people are just more educated about their medication here, they know the name of the medicine rather than the brand. It the same in the rest of Europe too.
Also in countries that aren’t New Zealand or the US direct advertising for prescription medication is banned, doctors prescribe a medication and pharmacists dispense it, they aren’t subject to people saying “I saw an advert for medicine X on the television, I have those symptoms, can I have drug X please? They are given what they need, not what they want.
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Jacuzzi.
I think they realize but lots of people refer to Kleenex when talking about offering a facial tissue
Hoover
Velcro
Chapstick (It’s lip balm!)
Bandaid. Also, these are called exemplars!
jet ski
Kleenex
Linoleum
Sellotape
Crock-pot
Kleenex
Dumpster.
Tylenol
Velcro, Dumpster, Chapstick, Band-Aid
Tupperware
Q-tips (cotton swabs)
Q-Tip
‘ChapStick’ is actually a brand name (like Kleenex for tissues), most people just call all lip balm that.
Heroin
Velcro
Xerox
Trampoline
Taser
Bubble Wrap
Taylor Ham
Kleenex?
Scotch tape
Vaseline
Valium, velcro, hoover
velcro
Google 😉
Cellophane
Channel lock
The Dipsty Dumpster Company has entered the chat.
Popsicle
Escalator
Tannoy
Zamboni
In the US it’s more common.
Brand names not protected or used anymore by the company’s. Gasoline, Then after a world war Bayer lost the rights to Aspirin and Heroin.
Brand names companies still own : Advil, Tylenol, Valium, Viagra .ect (when they first come out or become popular meds usually have a number of years until generics come out and you won’t notice a difference)
Same with Q tips and bandaids
Xerox really pisses me off as when someone first told me it sounded like an alien, but it was just a photocopier..
Probably many others like a stupid amount.
Cellophane
Zamboni
Dry Wall
Aspirin
Weedeater
Davenport
band-aid
Hoover
Tupperware
Ziplock
Kleenex, q-tip, javex
Xerox
Kleenex
Not sure if this counts but Super-hero
Velcro really caught me off guard.
The generic product is called “hook and loop”.
Fridge. Comes from Fridgidare
Lego.
My soul and sphincter goes into a spasm every time I hear Americans call them ‘Legos’.
They are Lego bricks.
You get Lego slippers if you stand on them.
We create a Lego model.
I guess I’m just old school.
Rollerblade
These were brand names
Jello
Frisbee
Hula Hoop
Lego
Styrofoam
Trex
Frisbee
Kleenex
Cool whip
Craisins
For the european mechanics. Bahco
Interac
Spikeball
ALLEN wrench
Vaporub
Rollerblades
Tucks
Laundromat
Taco Tuesday (OK, so not so much a “product”…)
Hovercraft
Astroturf
Dremel
Sawzall (though often mis-said/written as “Sawsall” all the way down to “zaw zaw”)
Skil saw (though often mis-said/written as Skill saw)
Airfryer
Yo-Yo
Dry Ice
Thermos
Frisbee
Jumbo Tron
Not as common anymore, but “Cuisinart” used to just refer to food processors…I think they diluted their own brand by diversifying, and not as much by other brands making food processors. I own one Cuisinart product, and it’s a Griddler panini press/griddle/waffle iron thing.
I once heard someone say they took a “Lyft Uber.” I would have given them the benefit of the doubt because they were drunk, but they were also very, very stupid, even when sober.
Gyprock
Jacuzzi
Skidoo
I’m waiting for someone to pop into this thread and tell me that Hot Dog™ is the brand name, and the generic is something like “long-form amalgameat.”
Pogo.
I thought, it’s just a few people doing crazy things inside a moshpit.
Jacuzzi— they’re always hot tubs to be. I was wrong.
Aspirin
Medicine, specifically in the USA.
I used to be a first aider here in the UK, once this American lady came in asking for a Band-Aid, partially due to her thick accent and partially as we was mostly saying “Band-Aid” over and over again it took us, yes more than one qualified first aider, to understand she wanted a plaster. I’ve also heard shop assistant being verbally abused in non-US countries for not having Advil or Tylenol in stock. I suspect this is party due the US healthcare system and medicine advertising.
Here in the UK you often won’t get the same brand of medication each time on prescription. I don’t pay much attention to exactly who made it but for the the last three months my Omeprazole has come from three different manufacturers. The same goes for paracetamol, people won’t often get a specific brand, they’ll get the basic shop brand. people are just more educated about their medication here, they know the name of the medicine rather than the brand. It the same in the rest of Europe too.
Also in countries that aren’t New Zealand or the US direct advertising for prescription medication is banned, doctors prescribe a medication and pharmacists dispense it, they aren’t subject to people saying “I saw an advert for medicine X on the television, I have those symptoms, can I have drug X please? They are given what they need, not what they want.
Crescent wrench
Allen keys
ziploc bags
Jet Ski
Adding a bilingual one here:
The common Japanese word for staplers is ホチキス (Hotchkiss) which is in fact a brand of stapler.
Lego, many people use it as generically for any building blocks
Tannoy
Jacuzzi
Xerox
Gas, as in what you put in the car…
Scotch Tape.
And in brasil it’s Durex.
Kleenex!
Channellock
Refrigerant
BAND-AID
Kleenex
Sheetrock.
Bit niche but solid surface countertops are often just called “Corian” which is the DuPont brand of solid surface material.
Band-aid edit: my bad “medical adhesive strips”
AdBlue
Xerox is, ironically, the original example.
Brillo
iPhone.
Kleenex
Kleenex
Tylenol
Teflon.
Maggi
Band-aid
Xerox
Jello! (Jell-O)
Sheetrock
Whipper snipper
Vaseline
Kleenex
WiFi
It’s not an acronym for “wireless fidelity”. It was created by a marketing firm to be a catchy and memorable term for the IEEE 802.11 standards.
Portacabin
They make those temporary, movable out-buildings that you see in industrial sites.
Popsicle
Jet ski
Viagra
The real medical name is Mycoxaflopin.
Heroin