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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-18•edit-216 days agoSure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”. That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•16 days agoI know what you’re saying but at the same time, I’m living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•16 days agoGenericisation. It happens all the time! Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK). Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-216 days agoKitty Litter ** heard this one on the podcast Under the Influence Spotify link.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•16 days agoKleenex, Frisbee (which was actually a pie company), Google
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-216 days agoDid you hear the podcast too? I forgot about the Frisbee pie company part of the episode.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•15 days agoI’m not a podcast guy. That’s a certified Dad Fact™️ lol
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•16 days agoRecently learned that “dumpster” is a brand name for a “skip bin.” “This skip bin fire of a government agency” just doesn’t have the same ring to it though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•16 days agothey are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.
Sure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”.
That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.
I know what you’re saying but at the same time, I’m living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.
Genericisation. It happens all the time!
Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK).
Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.
Aspirin
(and bandaids in the US)
Kitty Litter
** heard this one on the podcast Under the Influence Spotify link.
Kleenex, Frisbee (which was actually a pie company), Google
Did you hear the podcast too? I forgot about the Frisbee pie company part of the episode.
I’m not a podcast guy. That’s a certified Dad Fact™️ lol
Recently learned that “dumpster” is a brand name for a “skip bin.”
“This skip bin fire of a government agency” just doesn’t have the same ring to it though.
they are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.