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41 Brand Names People Use as Generic Terms | Mental Floss  May 9, 2014 ... Even heroin, which no one should use any day, was a brand name. ... Suspected tipplers breathed into a special balloon, and Harger's device got ... To use the word Realtor, you need to follow a strict code of ethics and be a .... Post-it means that you never remove it from the original group of papers as well.
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List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia  The following three lists of generic and genericized trademarks are: marks which were ... Sellotape: Sellotape is a British brand of transparent, cellulose-based, ... and other dictionaries are legally published as "Webster's Dictionary". ... Ltd. trademark name for a spinning toy in Canada, but was determined that the trademark...
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Brand Names Turned into Nouns and Verbs - Duolingo  "Fedex" is not in my dictionary but my edition is a few years old. ... the English speaking countries therein (the Irish and those in the UK also say biro, which is a brand made by bic) ..... Hoover is a generic word for a vacuum cleaner in the UK.
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English Brand Names that Have Become Regular Nouns!  Mar 14, 2012 ... In this English vocabulary lesson, you'll learn the brand names of some common ... started using the word 'xerox' as a synonym of 'photocopy,' (both a noun and a verb): ... Also: Hoover: a vacuum cleaner (British English) ... 'hoover sth up' also means to get or collect something in large quantities The...
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Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States ...  This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred. Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in .... The word 'peeler' of similar origin, is used in Northern Ireland.
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jeopardy/1841_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ____ & ____ | This brand whose name means "spotlessly clean" began as a glue-based wall cleaner | Spic & Span. right: Nancy. Wrong: Value: $400. Number:...
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Vocabulary Discoveries from Transfer-Printed Advertising Ware  Database. English 19th century advertising product containers and other ware contain a wealth of vocabulary or word usage which I have never heard before. Often related to ... ointments, tooth paste, cold cream, shaving products, food pastes, hair pomade, etc. What ... the Latin, meaning to soften, or to enervate. F.T. Leak...
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Flappers, Galoshes, and Zippers in the 1920s | witness2fashion  Feb 28, 2014 ... At first, Zipper referred to a brand of overshoe, not to the gizmo that opened ... Look for and find the name Goodrich on the shoe . . . only in this way can you ... The Hookless Fastener Company adopted an eagle's talon as its...
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History of The Hoover Company  FundingUniverse  1908: W.H. 'Boss' Hoover purchases Spangler's patent and forms the Electric ... More than 80 years later, in 1908, W.H. Hoover and his son began selling vacuum cleaners from the family business after purchasing the rights to an electric suction sweeper ... Initially called the Electric Suction Sweeper Co., the company was...
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Reeking and Wreaking - Daily Writing Tips  May 20, 2011 ... The word havoc, meaning devastation, derives from a French idiom, crier ... One meant to emit smoke and the other meant to emit a strong smell. ... There will always be people who just can't spell and get them straight. ... the bottom that said notify me of responses to this post (or something like that)?
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Bumbershoot: It means umbrella, but it's not British for umbrella - Slate  Nov 4, 2011 ... Third, the fact that bumbershoot sort of sounds British. And fourth, the presence of an actual British slang term for umbrella, brolly. ... According to a Marvel fan site, "Pinky's chief tool is his umbrella (bumbershoot).
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List of words having different meanings in American and British ...  This is the list of words having different meanings in British and American English: ... A term of informal address used with male strangers; generally implies more ... usu. in a tomato base, a red sauce containing tomatoes and herbs, often with ..... a small amount usu. in contrast to a larger one ("penny wise, pound foolish",...
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Ajax (cleaning product) - Revolvy  Ajax is a brand of cleaning products, introduced by Colgate-Palmolive in ... The Ajax name was transferred to a line of household cleaning products and ... a reference to the muscular hero Ajax of Greek mythology. ... "Ranked second was Colgate-Palmolive holding 20% value share, with its leading surface care brand Ajax.
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etymology - "Stick it in the boot." "Er, don't you mean the trunk ...  Mar 11, 2011 ... The vocabulary applied to today's cars draws a lot from the vocabulary applicable .... Now, why is it called a "turtle" in some parts of the south? .... Does using Mold Earth to trip someone break its rule against causing damage?
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Ptk tidbits 2015 06 09 vol 4 23i by Ray Dutton - issuu  Jun 9, 2015 ... You don't put a whole bar of soap into the laundry; you add soap dust. ... the Old French word manoeuvrer meaning to till the soil or to work by hand. .... that the vacuum cleaners soon became a standard household item.
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Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia  A vacuum cleaner, also known as a sweeper, is a device that uses an air pump to create a .... The first vacuum-cleaning device to be portable and marketed at the ... the Electrolux Trilobite, the first autonomous cordless robotic vacuum cleaner on .... include the Black & Decker DustBuster, which was introduced in 1979, and...
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English Brand Names that Have Become Regular Nouns!  Mar 14, 2012 ... It was one of the first companies in the world to make a photocopy ... For many companies, it's a real problem when their brand name or ... The brand name or trademark becomes a synonym for that product. ... Kleenex is the generic term used for paper facial tissue (the kind you use to blow your nose!).
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Slang terms at the Front - The British Library  Julian Walker explores the growth of slang used by soldiers in the trenches from ... a South African word for 'preserved food'), 'biscuit', a hard-baked bread that had ... Germans and British used the same terms for the German stick-grenade  a...
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History of Royal Appliance Manufacturing Company ...  Best known for its Dirt Devil brand vacuum cleaners, Royal Appliance ... product line took the firm to the top of the hand-vacuum heap in the late 1980s. Fueled by sales of its devil-red hand-vacuums, Royal rose to the ... In 1937, the company introduced what it called "the industry's first hand-held vac," known either as "the...
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List of words having different meanings in American and British ...  This is the list of words having different meanings in British and American English: MZ. ... Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also ... A term of informal address used with male strangers; generally implies more .... US; alternative UK term serviette is becoming obsolete], piece of paper used...
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The Alternative English Dictionary - The Alternative Dictionaries  (Northern England) A children's marching band, often using kazoo. ... This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after ..... Synonyms: (sudden movement) jolt, lurch, jump, (quick tug) yank, (stupid person) numbskull, ... jerkass etymology jerk + ass Alternative forms: jerk ass, jerk-ass.