The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57509   Message #905218
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
06-Mar-03 - 07:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nouns as Verbs: 'to summit Everest'
Subject: RE: BS: Nouns as Verbs: 'to summit Everest'
Google a good word, I think. There's no other word meaningbteh same, and it looks and sounds good.

I like it when a trademark word takes off this way, and the owners lose control of it - I mean, when you hoover the floor, you are more than likely to be using some other make of vacuum cleaner; when you want to keep your tea warm, you use a thermos flask, but it probably will be a different make entirely; and when you say you wrote something in biro, noone assumes that's the type of ballpoint pen you actually used.

The people who own the trademarks hate that, but I think we owe it to them to get up their noses in that way.