Re: [FWDLK] Frigidaire

[Greg Robertson <powerflite@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Lou.  That makes perfect sense.  I'm 48 and do recall my  
great-grandmother calling the refrigerator the "Coolerator"  
generically, even though she owned a pink Hotpoint, but I never did  
hear Frigidaire used that way.  My grandfather called it the icebox,  
but of course that's not a brand name.  I guess it's all what you  
grew up with, and when.

Thanks again,
Greg Robertson



On Jul 7, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Lou wrote:

> I think the gist of the original msg was not that Frigidaire as a  
> brand from yesterday, but that it was a proprietary eponym  (brand  
> name used as a replacement for the generic term - the same way many  
> people say "Kleenex" instead of  "tissue.")    I don't know of any  
> people  younger than, say, their '60's who say "Frigidaire"   
> instead of  "refrigerator"  - the brand has lost its status, I guess..
>
> Check out this link:
> http://www.rinkworks.com/words/eponyms.shtml
>
> Regards,
> Lou

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