quote:Originally posted by dang65: Is there anyone that is able to say "theatre" in the way that actors can? It's sort of "thee-etter", but it never sounds right when I try it.
Yes!!!! My boss says theee-eatter in a particularly special way. He has something to do with a theatre near where he lives, so he tends to say it quite often and it always makes me smile and then I make him say it again. A bit like when we were small and I used to make my mum say "sweeties" in her special lovely Scottish voice. It always sounded so warm .
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quote:Originally posted by saltrock: lovely Scottish voice
I love/hate miw-yuns - the Scottish pronunciation of millions. As stupid as it sounds, I can't help smiling each time I hear it.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: When people describe their vacuum cleaner as a 'hoover' when it's made by any company other than Hoover. That really grinds my gears
Similarly, when people ask for a Coke when in reality, they'd settle for just about any cola-type drink (Pepsi, Panda Cola etc), regardless of the fact that Coke is a specific product and registered trademark of the Coca~Cola Company, rather than just some generic fizzy drink with a slightly musty flavour, it really fucks me off!
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Lol imagine asking for a vodka and cola, in a pub.
Actually, I think you'll find that "Coke", or "Coca-cola" is a registered brand name. A generic cola drink will suit me just fine, thanking you barman!
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I thought Hoover was one of the few names to have reached generic brand-crossover point in that way. Several companies try to force it- I remember ads encouraging you to "Switch it" and "Persil it", but I guess it has to evolve naturally. I mean, it surely spawned the phrasal verb "to hoover up" as in the fat fucker hoovered up the remaining crumbs of their Maccy D with a sickening gulp of flabby greed.
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I love that in a Scottish accent
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: Can anyone think of any other brand names which have become verbs? I can't. So I'm going to go and Google for some.
Chuckle.
A few people I know now say, I'm going to Sky plus it, when they mean record it using the hard disc recorder electronic programme guide named Sky +. Idiots.
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I do this. Sorry if it annoys.
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Maybe not... people say "I'm going to torrent it", perhaps that isn't the same thing. Perhaps they don't even say that and I'm imagining it.
Oh... an advertising campaign wanted us to say "I oyster up to Earl's Court", but I suspect that would catch in most people's throats if they weren't wankers.
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quote:Originally posted by saltrock: lovely Scottish voice
I love/hate miw-yuns - the Scottish pronunciation of millions. As stupid as it sounds, I can't help smiling each time I hear it.
I used to get laughed at at school for saying mill-yuns instead of mill i ons and sangwich instead of sandwich. Oh, and my dad does the best one - fillums for films.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I love/hate miw-yuns - the Scottish pronunciation of millions. As stupid as it sounds, I can't help smiling each time I hear it.
Alex - or should I say Awex - Ferguson is a classic example. We paid five miw-yun for this pway-er. We pwayed well. Etc.
In a moment of utter boredom while travelling through Poland this subject cropped up, and we concluded that the Polish 'Ł' - pronounced as a 'W' as in Łódź - should be introduced into the Scottish alphabet. So 'million' in Scotch would be miłion, for example.
As for the use of brand names to describe a generic item, I believe hoover has more or less been accepted as a general term for a vacuum cleaner, in much the same way as sellotape is used to describe any clear tape.
Useless factoid #675: in France clear tape is called scotch.
quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: As for the use of brand names to describe a generic item, I believe hoover has more or less been accepted as a general term for a vacuum cleaner, in much the same way as sellotape is used to describe any clear tape.
Except on Blue Peter. Which prompted a lasting confusion during my childhood. I thought I'd figured out, after years of wondering what this special product was, that sticky-back plastic was the acetate stuff you use to laminate books or signs with. In fact, it was only last week that I realised sticky-back plastic was simply their non-copyright term for Sellotape.
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Sellotape's a good example of brand name as verb. Another stationery one would be Tippex I suppose. Although quite a few people say Snopake instead of Tippex, but "to tippex" is definitely a verb and "to snopake" I don't think is.
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Wonderstarr - you're really reminding me of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, running around the forum trying to make the burglars think people are still home, lol.
quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: Except on Blue Peter. Which prompted a lasting confusion during my childhood. I thought I'd figured out, after years of wondering what this special product was, that sticky-back plastic was the acetate stuff you use to laminate books or signs with. In fact, it was only last week that I realised sticky-back plastic was simply their non-copyright term for Sellotape.
That really is a lasting confusion, isn't it.
Me too! This precluded me from ever trying to make anything that they made on Blue Peter since 'sticky-back plastic' just wasn't the sort of thing we had lying around the house. Why they couldn't have called it 'sticky tape' like any fucking sane person would I have no idea.
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NO NO. Sticky tape was the Blue Peter-ism for sellotape, but sticky backed plastic was something else entirely. A kind of sheet covering for exercise books or Sindy dressing tables made out of matchboxes. It may have had the brand name of Fablon, or something.
True fact: I once used the double sided tape you get to stick pikey double glazing to window frames to secure a dress to myself, and came up in comedy blisters over the course of the night. Lol!
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quote:Originally posted by ben: People ask for a Coke when in reality, they'd settle for just about any cola-type drink (Pepsi, Panda Cola etc), regardless of the fact that Coke is a specific product and registered trademark of the Coca~Cola Company, rather than just some generic fizzy drink with a slightly musty flavour, it really fucks me off!
I'm not sure that's true. I know I (and I'm certain at least one of my friends) would specifically want Coke/Coca-Cola if I asked for it, not any other generic crap pop some cheapskate was attempting to peddle in it's stead.
Like my friends who had Soda Streams when we were kids.
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