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        2 months ago

        I’ve never actually heard another aussie call a tissue a kleenex before tbh

        Although I am surprised glad wrap and googling haven’t been genericised yet.

        And only tangentially related but I used to get a bit annoyed when (mostly old) people would use “iPad” as a general term for anything larger than a phone but smaller than a laptop, until I realised if people did that and apple lost the trademark, there’d be one less thing for the rich kids with their i devices to bully people for

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            2 months ago

            Huh. I always thought they were spelled texter

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                2 months ago

                I don’t think I’ve ever used a texta branded texta before, just whatever the kmart version is called

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                    2 months ago

                    None of the schools I’ve been to really had name brand things, so that doesn’t help

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          2 months ago

          Google is a little different, because people don’t say they’ll “Google something” and then use a different search engine. They actually use Google. It isn’t synonymous with “search”. It’s just the search engine most people use.