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brand names becoming the product names.
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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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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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".
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