hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
number 1 English Fluency Guide and in
this video we're going to talk about
brand names that have become names for
everyday products and things just like
in another recent video where i was
talking about brand names and how maybe
a brand or a product or a company might
have one name but people refer to it by
something else if you can understand
these things you sound much more native
when you speak the reason this video is
so important it's a slightly different
idea but it's still related because
often people will ask for one thing by
the name of that thing like as a
particular thing maybe I'm asking a
friend for some soap but if there is a
more native way of asking for that that
everybody understands you sound much
more native and then you also look more
native to the people that you're
speaking with so in this video we're
going to cover 10 names that have become
so popular so widespread as used for
particular product that maybe they have
almost even lost their copyright for
that particular thing people refer to
one thing as the brand itself as opposed
to the name of that thing
let's begin the first one is post it
posted now this is post it if I say it
slowly but in a casual conversation away
i'm saying pose did post it the T
becomes more of a decent sound posted
posted post-its are these little pieces
of paper that have a little bit of glue
on the back and then you can stick them
on your computer or maybe there are note
that you want to put on your mirror your
refrigerator but these are created by
these 3m company and post it is an
actual brand name but now because you
know it became such a popular thing and
even though many different companies
make these little pieces of paper which
typically are known as sticky notes or
some kind of note with glue on it that's
the actual name for the kind of product
is posted is a brand name but it has
become the name that people use no
matter what you know the actual brand of
that little piece of paper is so if i go
to a store and I'm looking for little
pieces of paper or I ask someone hey can
you pick me up some post-it from the
store i don't care if it's actually
posted brand pieces of paper with the
glue i just want something that is that
kind of
think so the brand itself has become the
name for that product post it post it
next dumpster dumpster
there's a pee in this but it basically
disappears dumpster dumpster dumpster
often when we don't say the sound of a
letter in a word we still leave that
slight pause dumpster dumpster dumpster
dump stir dumpster now it's dumped stir
but we don't pronounce it like that we
just say dumpster
now this is a brand name but it just
means really a large trash can that you
have in the back of a restaurant or some
business usually a commercial dumpster
but people just refer to any large thing
like this that holds garbage as a
dumpster
even though it's really a trash bin or
that would be kind of the the everyday
generic term for it but it's a brand
name that started by the Dempster
brothers so the Dempster brothers
started the Dempster dumpster company i
know it sounds funny but it's you know
it kind of easy thing for them to for
them to say but Dempster and then they
created the dumpster Dempster dumpster
so try to say that ten times fast
Dempster dumpster dense to dumpster
anyway again this is something that if
you say oh I'm going to take the trash
out to the dumpster it doesn't matter if
it's actually a dumpster brand or not
but people understand what you're
talking about
dumpster dumpster next taser taser taser
and these are the little handheld
devices that can shock people you might
have seen a video on youtube go around
maybe I think two or three years ago
about a guy getting shocked and he said
don't tase me bro
don't tase me bro if you actually type
in don't tase me bro right here in
YouTube you can probably find it don't
do that to the end of this video though
but it's it's a funny video a little bit
sad and unfortunate at the same time but
it became a very popular thing in just
American culture in general so don't
tase me bro
otays is the verb of that the Taser is
the name of the company
tas ER and this comes from Thomas a
swift electric rifle so it's an acronym
we're taking tas
r thomas a swift electric rifle and that
comes from a book called Tom Swift
electric rifle or Tom Swift electric
rifle now this is also i could just like
an old novel but people took the eight
so Tom Swift didn't have a middle name
in the book but people gave in that
middle name anyway just because it
sounds better for the name instead of
two together which is harder to say we
say taser so the company created it and
called a Taser and now when anybody
talks about some electric shocking thing
it's just called a Taser even though
that is a brand name taser next
Tupperware Tupperware this was created
by Earl Tupper and it's just now become
synonymous with again this idea of it
becomes the name for any of these things
so any little plastic thing people have
come to known that people have come to
know as Tupperware Tupperware so if you
bring some maybe food over to someone's
house it could be in any kind of plastic
container or if you go to someone's
house and they say oh like I want to
take some food home with me and I say oh
do you have any tupperware for me to put
that it now i don't actually mean
physical tupperware real brand name
tupperware just any kind of plastic
container like that Tupperware
Tupperware next scotch tape scotch tape
scotch tape now refers to any kind of
cellophane tape even though it's not
actually the Scotch brand again we just
have the same idea of a company that
made a product that people really like
and it just became known as a product
that people use no matter what kind of
tape they're actually using so again
this is for just that that clear plastic
cellophane tape with the sticky part on
it maybe you have something in your desk
but when you're asking people hey hey do
you have any scotch tape we're not
asking again for that specific brand
mean you might be but most people are
just looking for that regular kind of
tape scotch tape next the q-tip q-tip
q-tip SAR those little wooden sticks or
maybe some plastic ones with some cotton
balls at each end and this was
originally created by putting actually
just a little bit of cotton on the end
of a toothpick now these were originally
called baby games by the current by the
Creator baby gays
that's maybe kind of a weird name but if
you're using that to clean your ears are
clean a baby or I don't know what you
could use it for but it became q-tips
when he decided to change the name and Q
stands for quality but q-tips even
though that's a brand name it's become a
thing that anybody uses when you're
talking about some kind of cotton swab
so the name of that product as just this
thing by itself without a brand name is
a cotton swab so people often talk about
a q-tip brand cotton swab but nobody
says that it's too long to say so i just
say hey to my friend all my ear is maybe
dirty can i get a q-tip can i get a
q-tip next chapstick chapstick
this is another little stick of thing a
lip balm so it's chapstick brand lift
the bomb or whatever they call it but
it's just that thing that you put on
your lips when you want to keep them
moist and dry especially in the
wintertime but there are many companies
that make a lip balm but chapstick is
the only brand that has that actual
brand name but again everybody has come
to call any little cap any kind of small
thing like that that you use on your
lips they call that chapstick so if i
asked my friend hey do you have any
chapstick I don't actually care if he
has the brand name or not I'm just
asking if he has that kind of thing
chapstick next xerox xerox now this is a
popular company for making copies making
copy machines and when xerox created the
idea of xerography so copying something
the way they do this became just over
time something that people would say oh
can you make a Xerox of this for me or
can use xerox this for me
so instead of saying copy the actual
brand name became known as copying
something so if you're asking people but
you want to sound more native you're at
your office or something
oh can you Xerox this for me so people
understand don't like they're talking
about making a copy in general and not
the actual brand name
xerox xerox next Kleenex Kleenex now
this is a funny sounding word for
non-native speakers especially if you
have not heard it before but it is a
famous brand of facial tissue now people
again again again they don't say please
give me a kleenex brand facial tissue
nobody says that nobody says that so
people to say give me a Kleenex give me
a Kleenex but in a casual way all can i
get a Kleenex can i get a Kleenex or do
you have any Kleenex all I need to blow
my nose or do you have a Kleenex a
Kleenex again it's one of those brands
that because it's become so popular and
so widely used that instead of people
asking for a facial tissue which again
it takes longer people say Kleenex
Kleenex Kleenex finally we've got
band-aid band-aid listening carefully to
how this blends we've got the D from
band in the a from a but it blends
together ban daid mandate mandate is
again a brand name but a lot of people
don't even know that it's a brand name
they just assume ok like every every
kind of adhesive bandage which is what
it is so it's a band-aid brand adhesive
bandage but again nobody says that
so people say can i get a band-aid oh I
have a cut on my hand do you have a
band-aid i have a cut on my face
do you have a band-aid where can i get a
band-aid
so if you go to a drugstore or a
pharmacist and say hey do you know where
the band aids are where can I find the
band-aid they know you're talking about
adhesive strips or adhesive bandages
but again nobody says that because
band-aid has become so popular and it's
such a widely-used thing that that's
what people especially native speakers
use band-aid band-aid
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