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Interesting, I've never heard jeep used like that in the U.S. Actual jeeps are pretty common here though.
by thatguy0900 7y ago
Interesting, I've never heard jeep used like that in the U.S. Actual jeeps are pretty common here though.
- malkia 7y agoBorn in Bulgaria, can confirm - "Джип", or "Джипка" which is really "Jeep" in bulgarian (and probably other slavic languages). Another one is "Yonica" for any synthesizer. Obviously "Scotch" (more for the tape, than drink). But... What I really love is "Pampers" - yes this is the bulgarian word for... "diapers"... and many more...
- tdsamardzhiev 7y agoDon't forget "Xerox"
- ForHackernews 7y agoAmusing and relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-a-photocopier.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-...
- cosmodisk 7y agoWe've got it more or less the same in Lithuania with a lot of brands. "Pampers" is the default name for nappies. "Scotch" and "Xerox" are popular in Slavic languages,we never picked these up for some reason. Here,in the UK, the more popular ones are: Stanley Knife( any retractable knife) or Hoover( Vacuum cleaner).
- pokeymcsnatch 7y agoThere's quite a few people (in the US) that use "jeep" as a general term for any Jeep-sized offroading vehicle.
- crottypeter 7y agoIn fact the word "jeep" came from the colloquial contraction of "GP" - general purpose (vehicle).
- Semaphor 7y agoFor most of my life I didn’t know Jeep was a brand. It’s simply what you call most off-road vehicles in German. And looking at Wikipedia it seems like that is the case in most of Europe.
- gdy 7y agoIn Russia 'jeep' as an off-road vehicle has even made its way into a dictionary. The same with xerox as any photo-copier. http://gramota.ru/slovari/dic/?word=%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BF&all=x http://gramota.ru/slovari/dic/?word=%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BF...