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i_agree_with_nick
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Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 13, 2014 11:10 AM BST
Velcro
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 11:13 AM BST
Good shout HHSV
Report guinness2dear • May 13, 2014 11:13 AM BST
Aspirin
Report guinness2dear • May 13, 2014 11:15 AM BST
Thermos
Report guinness2dear • May 13, 2014 11:16 AM BST
Zip
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 11:16 AM BST
Is Aspirin a trade name?

Actually, surprised you didn't say Guinness
Report ooO{Alpha Centauri}Ooo • May 13, 2014 11:18 AM BST
Sellotape
Xerox
Report guinness2dear • May 13, 2014 11:18 AM BST
Well you don't ask for a particular aspirin, soooo.
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 11:18 AM BST
Thermos and zip are good shouts although I thought that zip was now ok to use as the product name
Report guinness2dear • May 13, 2014 11:20 AM BST
I spose i should have said zipper..
Report ooO{Alpha Centauri}Ooo • May 13, 2014 11:21 AM BST
Jacuzzi
Yo Yo
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 11:22 AM BST
Durex (probably more true in the 70s and 80s)
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 11:24 AM BST
Great examples Alpha. Didn't even know Jacuzzi and Yo Yo were trade names.
Report BrendanScrote • May 13, 2014 11:24 AM BST
JCB
Report Ken Masters • May 13, 2014 11:25 AM BST
Sellotape
Report Ken Masters • May 13, 2014 11:26 AM BST
Viagra
Report Ken Masters • May 13, 2014 11:26 AM BST
Plasticene
Play-Do
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 11:27 AM BST
Biro
Valium
Report Ken Masters • May 13, 2014 11:27 AM BST
Blu-Tac
Post-It notes

Stationery's full of it...
Report Ken Masters • May 13, 2014 11:27 AM BST
Milk
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 11:31 AM BST
Jeep?
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 12:30 PM BST
Coke
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 13, 2014 1:52 PM BST
Google; although the verb "to google" has now been included in the English language
Report mememe • May 13, 2014 2:20 PM BST
Betfair, as in meaning to "bet fair".

Not really sure though.
Report wallis • May 13, 2014 3:14 PM BST
Anusol.

Cream relief for your 'chalfonts'
Report kincsem • May 13, 2014 3:22 PM BST
Spoilsports
VISA
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • May 13, 2014 3:53 PM BST
Not really a trade name, but whatever fuel is used in an engine started by compression gets named after the engine's inventor, Rudolf Diesel.

Herr Diesel himself used coal dust or vegetable oil, but these days fuel derived from petroleum, gas or wood all gets called diesel.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • May 13, 2014 4:03 PM BST
Then there's Amelia Bloomer, the 19th century American feminist, and Antoine Sax, the 19th century Belgian musical-instrument maker.
Report Zazu • May 13, 2014 4:11 PM BST
Coke
Report Roger The Butler • May 13, 2014 4:26 PM BST
wallis   13 May 14 15:14 

Anusol.
Cream relief for your 'chalfonts'


I have always referred to suppositories as bum pellets. The other half was going to do the shopping a year or two back and I told her to get me some bum pellets whilst there. So she got to the pharmacy counter at Sainsbury's and couldn't remember the real name of them as she was only used to what I call them. "Can I have some bum pellets please?" she had to ask, very embarrassed. Fortunately they understood her.
Report i_agree_with_nick • May 15, 2014 8:59 AM BST
Filofax
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