for years nay decades i tended to look askance at anyone who used "to hoover" generically as the verb for doing the vacuum cleaning. just now though, with shock, i realised i am one such peep...
in my old existence, when social interaction, thus camping hols, picnics etc were a thing, we would pack, take, use, "the esky". though of necessity i've not used one for decades, i still have some in my cupboards, & still think of them as "eskies", notwithstanding iirc at least one of them actually being a coleman.
in my kitchen, i own very little, possibly no, "tupperware", yet i always generically think of all my various containers of this ilk as my tupperware this or my tupperware that.
ah, hypocrisy, you ol' bastard!
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