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Originally Posted by mjhudston
I don't think we ever called a Xerox a Xerox, it's always been a photocopier to me.
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For that one, I think it was more the verb that became the default term : to xerox something meant to photocopy it. Similar to hoovering the carpet. But we always took a thermos on picnics, regardless of who the vacuum jug was actually made by, and ate our food from sealed plastic containers we called tupperware, even though we'd bought them from Woollies.