Cotton swab, or Q-tip? (288/365)

by The Philosophical Fish

Cotton swab, or Q-tip? (288/365)

October 15, 2015 – It’s funny how we use brand names instead of item descriptor, maybe we do it more here in Canada, I’m not sure.

Examples include:

– Q-tips rather than cotton swabs
– Bandaids instead of bandages
– Kleenex not tissue
– Tupperware rather than plastic storage container
– Scotch tape, Duct tape….

I’m sure there are others, but those are the ones off the top of my head at the moment.

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CarlosCSL October 16, 2015 - 3:24 am

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Mr. Pebb October 16, 2015 - 3:24 am

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Carol Davidson October 16, 2015 - 3:47 am

Xerox. Though maybe not as often these days. I had to get used to people calling bandages ‘plasters’ in Thailand. Sounded like a cast to me

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Stephen L D'Agostino October 16, 2015 - 3:48 am

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 3:50 am

Hans wrote Aspirin but I had to delete the entire post because the first attempt to post didn’t go through right 🙁

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 3:52 am

Which then leads to Tylenol instead of acetaminophen….

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Carol Davidson October 16, 2015 - 3:52 am

Aspirin, Tylenol, Advil…I say the drug name and get funny looks sometimes

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Hans Pannerup Rasmussen October 16, 2015 - 3:54 am

Carol Davidson you sure it’s from that?

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Carol Davidson October 16, 2015 - 4:24 am

Lol wellllll…..

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Hans Pannerup Rasmussen October 16, 2015 - 3:54 am

Velcro!

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 4:13 am

What else would you call that stuff though? Does it even have a generic name?

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Hans Pannerup Rasmussen October 16, 2015 - 4:14 am

hook and loop fastener.

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 4:14 am

Kirk just told me…hook-and-loop

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Randy DeBin October 16, 2015 - 4:16 am

Popsicles.

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 4:23 am

Post-it!

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Anne Todgham October 16, 2015 - 4:27 am

Kleenex. Windsurfer.

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Hans Pannerup Rasmussen October 16, 2015 - 4:28 am

Google

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 4:33 am

The biggest of them all!

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Linda Herbert October 16, 2015 - 4:39 am

All of these! Also ChapStick.

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 4:44 am

Yes!

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Randy DeBin October 16, 2015 - 5:02 am

Vaseline.

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konstantin.tilberg October 16, 2015 - 5:44 am

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LellyLazo October 16, 2015 - 6:12 am

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Marne Birch October 16, 2015 - 10:40 am

Ski-Do…altho that isn’t used as much any more. Sea-Do

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Paige Ackerman October 16, 2015 - 2:36 pm

We had one of the original big, yello, mono-ski Ski-dos, so yes, they are all ski-dos to me 🙂

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Randy DeBin October 16, 2015 - 1:53 pm

Motorcycle. Even Harleys use the term!

I know, right?

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lunaryuna October 16, 2015 - 5:44 pm

looks great in b&w. good photography.

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Mary Louise Fletcher October 16, 2015 - 6:48 pm

Plasters = bandaids or bandages – bandages in UK are big white material strips that you “bandage” up the wound with!

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maxgor.com October 16, 2015 - 7:45 pm

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Jennifer Shaw October 16, 2015 - 11:04 pm

Xerox…

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Apionid October 18, 2015 - 11:05 am

We call them cotton buds in the UK, although I think Q-tip might be creeping in with the US influence on our language. Ah well, I’ll get back to the Hoovering…!

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solalta October 19, 2015 - 2:23 am

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