Guest Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 do you know of any product names which have become nomenclature for the product itself? such as Klennex for tissues or coke for soda or xerox for copy machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 Sure, there are tons. I like the ones where your average joe doesn't know that he's saying a name brand, such as Jacuzzi, Frisbee and Velcro. Here's a a list of Proprietary Eponyms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 re: Proprietary Eponyms...carlosn27......what a good start! Where are you going with this?....not that it needs have some direction other than of the lead to site stated by maestro Martini..... I do love word play. Word play! See you on the flip side. Yah?........Thank you soooo much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 re: Proprietary Eponyms...carlosn27......what a good start! Where are you going with this?....not that it needs have some direction other than of the lead to site stated by maestro Martini..... I do love word play. Word play! See you on the flip side. Yah?........Thank you soooo much. i wasnt going anywhere with this, I was just thinking about it the other day and thought I'd see if anyone else would be interested in typing in their faves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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do you know of any product names which have become nomenclature for the product itself?
such as Klennex for tissues
or coke for soda
or xerox for copy machine
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