[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia in the news

David Speakman david at speakman.com
Sun Apr 25 00:09:17 UTC 2004



> 
> Steve Cooney wrote:
 Contrary to popular belief, 
> becoming an actual 
> word (like Kleenex, Xerox, and uncountably many more) is bad for the 
> popularity of the original.
> 

I believe better examples would be aspirin and zipper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark

-- Davodd




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