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Words that used to be property. On the left what we mean, on the right who came up with it.

Brands that everyday speech turned into ordinary words. Genericide?

that was the last one

All swiped.

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A brand that works too well loses itself. This register keeps track of the names that became so ordinary nobody hears them as brands any more.