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  • #594148
    eclipse
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    Did you know that although we use those words freely,

    they are only BRAND names for

    tomato catsup,bandages,and tissues?

    Also Jello(gel dessert),

    Casio(keyboard)

    and…??

    #727910
    WolfishMusings
    Participant

    Photoshop and Google are well on their way there.

    The Wolf

    #727911
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    It causes lots of legal problems for trademarks.

    #727912
    crdle
    Member

    Iphone, Blackberry, Itouch etc etc, u can just say phone. Someone who has a nebach motorola doesnt say : ” I forgot my motorola” lol

    #727913
    Jack Daniels
    Member

    Jack Daniels;):)

    #727914
    Sacrilege
    Member

    Xerox

    #727915
    winny1
    Participant

    scotch tape

    #727916
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Fedex (Its already used as a verb as in, I will FEDEX this today)

    White Out (correction fluid)

    Post Its (is the 3M brand)

    #727917
    Ken Zayn
    Member

    Also Hoover (vacuum cleaner) and zipper (the thing you use to close your sweater) come to mind. There are more. I’ll post them if I remember them

    #727918
    not I
    Member

    Hoover- vaccum

    #727919
    Jack Daniels
    Member

    tylenol

    bounce

    bounty

    #727920
    Sacrilege
    Member

    I never heard anyone say I’m going to Hoover now…

    Although, I did hear Swiffer (G-d bless whoever created that!)

    #727921

    Frigidaire, Q-Tip, Sheetrock, Channel Lock, Elmers, Totes, BVDs, Windex, PC, Clorox…

    #727922
    hipflasker
    Member

    Vasaline, Walkman, Discman, Coke, Cruzer

    #727923

    When i sometimes read the coffee room posts i actually laugh. Some of you are really having a good time B”H. My question is and honestly speaking, who are you guys? Are you retired with some free time, are you in kollel and working under the shtenda(be careful because you may end up with a huntched back), are you at work and have time off for lunch or some other break? Are you using your bosses computer? Are you doing chesed at sitting with someone who needs company whether at their home or such as hospital? Do you have a snow day off? Are you a homemaker who already has supper ready and is taking a break? Honestly speaking admit where you are emailing from. Yes, about myself…as i told you it’s some form of entertainment which i may do occassionaly. I am part time employed as a therapist and the rest of the time am busy with running the house as a Yiddishe Mamma is supposed to!

    Enjoy and have fun!

    Could we add some Yiddish/Hebrew names to this log or are we limited to English/American only?

    #727924
    smartcookie
    Member

    Pampers

    Casio

    #727925
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    Velcro

    #727926
    ha ha ha ha
    Member

    Sac-that is what they say in England…

    #727927
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    Lia:

    Already have said many times boss knows & doesn’t care.

    Not to hijack, but many bosses care for results, not how they are gotten to.

    #727928
    Sacrilege
    Member

    ha ha ha ha

    Do they? Cool.

    #727929

    Kool-aid.

    There is actually an inaccurate negative connotation to Kool Aid because of this.

    Jim Jones and his followers didn’t drink poisoned Kool Aid; they actually drank a mix named “Flavor Aid”.

    Nonetheless, “drink the Kool Aid” has become synonomous with “follow the leader, regardless of how irrational he is”, based on popular recall of that mass suicide.

    #727930
    Ken Zayn
    Member

    Sac: Yes this is NOT a NY only site. Jews do exist also outside of NY and even outside of USA. Posters on YWN also come from Israel, Australia, South Africe and even good old England where I (and perhaps ‘not I’…) come from!

    Yes, ‘ha ha ha ha’ is correct that thats how we speak (we as in the ones who started the language that you yanks have TRIED to copy).

    Maybe ‘ha ha ha ha’ also happens to come from England?

    #727931
    mamashtakah
    Member

    Catsup is a variant of ketchup. Neither are registered brand names.

    For more info, see http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/catsup?rh=dictionary.reference.com

    #727932
    not I
    Member

    Thanks for sticking up for me Ken Zayn!!

    I am not English at all!! Lived here for yrs..

    It happens to be that you mentioned Hoover too!!

    #727933
    Ken Zayn
    Member

    I am not English at all. Lived here for yrs.

    I dont know where you refer to as here , but it implies that you werent born where you live now. So where were you born, where are you now, where were you inbetween, and how do you know so well how the English speak?

    #727934
    ronrsr
    Member

    Realtor

    Jacuzzi

    Trampoline

    are all registered trademarks.

    #727935
    Sender Av
    Member

    ICOT, do people still call it a Frigidaire? My great grandmother I was told use to do that( she would also call it the icebox).People commonly call cotton swabs Q-tips. Also all or most cereals are trademarked by their respected companies. For example the kellogs and store brand version of cheerios are almost always referred to as that name which is a trademark of General Mills.

    #727936
    ha ha ha ha
    Member

    how about tylenol

    #727937
    bezalel
    Participant

    Atwater Kent

    Pogo Stick

    Razor

    Rubik’s Cube

    Phonograph

    Gramophone

    In Sink Erator

    #727938

    Sender Av-

    Hi.

    do people still call it a Frigidaire?

    Not really, but “Fridge” (its derivative) is commonly used.

    also…

    Rice crispies.

    Drano.

    Roto-Rooter.

    Astroturf.

    “Spaldeen”.

    La-z-boy.

    #727939
    commonsense
    Participant

    ICOT I believe that fridge is short for refrigerator which is what the item is and not a brand name.

    #727940
    eclipse
    Member

    This is a different twist,but many times when people are referring to what a real tzadik would or wouldn’t do,

    they say,”Would Reb Moishe(Feinstein) do/say that?

    or: “What would Reb Moishe say?”

    #727941

    commonsense-

    If you Google “where does the word fridge come from”, you’ll find both theories presented. I chose the one that fit this thread.

    also…

    Vise-Grip.

    Sawzall.

    Robitussin.

    #727942
    usbaers
    Participant

    Sender Av, ICOT: My m-i-l, who is 90, always calls the refrigerator “the Fridgidaire.” (We have a different brand.)

    “Aspirin” is actually a trademarked name owned by Bayer.

    #727943
    Professional
    Member

    Gavra, may I ask who is the boss? sounds very ideal…

    #727944

    usbaers-

    Bli ayin hora – ad maya v’esrim.

    My grandmother A”H used to call it the “Frigidaire”, too.

    When I was a kid, I thought that was an alternative word for refrigerator.

    Anyone here remember “monitor top” fridges?

    Bonus: why were they called “monitor tops”?

    #727945
    usbaers
    Participant

    ICOT:Bonus: why were they called “monitor tops”?

    because they watched what you ate?

    #727946

    usbaers-

    That’s a great answer, but not the real one.

    The cylindrical top of those old refrigerators reminded people of the gun turret used by the Civil War ironclad ship Monitor.

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