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brand names becoming the product names.

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sistar | 23:13 Sat 02nd Sep 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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Not sure this is the right section, but here goes, I was thinking the other day about brand names that have come to mean the object, whatever its brand, for example, Hoover for Vacuum cleaner, I can also think of Sellotape, Tippex, Jeep, iPod seems to be moving in that direction, I'm sure there are more, anyone got any ideas?
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Technicolor's an interesting one. People often forget it's a tradename and anglicise it (ie. add a u) when doing a production of Joseph - many a poster seen with the title misspelled.

And no-one seems to have mentioned Post-It Notes.
I very vaguely remember an article in Private Eye many years ago. The magazine had just received a slap on the wrist from lawyers acting for the Hoover Company for daring to use their eponymous product as a verb (and probably - shock horror - lowercase as well). The magazine simply printed a photograph of the lawyers' letter under a heading that read something like "What a sad way to make a living".
Playstation isn't really one, you wouldn't call an X-Box a Playstation would you?
Where I live, we always called a condom a "Durex". Then when I went to Australia I went into a shop and the woman said she would give me some Durex to close a parcel. It turned out she was talking about the product that we call Sellotape.

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