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Trade Marks As Generic Names - Gramophone
By Christofer Noering

Hello!  Philippe Rouille wrote:

> In French, Limonaire (with a capital L) is both a trade mark and
> a generic common word for all fairground organs (then written with
> small letter : limonaire), like Frigidaire and frigidaire.

I immediately come to think of "gramophone" which is the Swedish
and British generic word for a disc-playing talking machine.  While
Americans use "phonograph" (as Mr. Edison originally did, as he also
envisaged a disc-playing variety of his tin-foil machine), Russians
and Romanians use "patefon" (from the hill-and-dale Pathephone,
I presume).

Now what did the Greeks say?  Zonophone?  Or Xenophon? ;-)

Best regards and Happy New Year
Christofer Noering


(Message sent Mon 30 Dec 2002, 07:59:11 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

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