Talk:List of generic and genericized trademarks

"Much like 'Band-Aid' in North America, the name has become a genericized trademark in some Commonwealth countries including the United Kingdom and Australia."

I've lived in the UK all my life and have never heard this. From this I deduce it's regional, and whoever wrote this wrongly assumed it to be the case throughout the UK. I furthermore note that the reference is to an American dictionary which doesn't in fact state geographic scope at all.

Can anyone enlighten on:

• where in the UK people call plasters "Elastoplast"?
• why people in said region do this, considering that (a) "plaster", the common name in the rest of the UK for such things, is shorter orthographically and much shorter phonetically (b) they're not the product Elastoplast is best known for?

— Smjg (talk) 12:05, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

The iPhone is an Apple product but I noticed people often use it as a generic term for all smartphones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:C780:60B0:D295:4770:7A1A:D73 (talk) 07:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Texta is the primary term used in Australia for marker pens. Permanent markers, colouring markers, etc. are all called textas. Texta is a marker brand like Fabre Castle. It's comparable to how Australians also call ballpoint pens "biros". 49.194.194.109 (talk) 00:59, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

A {{More citations needed|date=January 2019}} tag was added in Jan 2019. Is it still necessary? There are currently 247 references with a citation for nearly every sentence. Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/him] 09:38, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Citation #33...Um what? This sentence doesn't make sense.

98.176.232.246 (talk) 12:35, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Webasto is often used in Finland for fuel powered engine preheaters regardless of actual manufacturer. I don't know if this is more widespread elsewhere. Some references: Jaffaceksi (talk) 20:18, 8 February 2026 (UTC)