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All jokes aside, I've never heard anyone call vacuuming hoover. I wonder if that was a older statement?
by dubcanada 2y ago
All jokes aside, I've never heard anyone call vacuuming hoover. I wonder if that was a older statement?
- justneedaname 2y agoIn the UK it's very common
- bdsa 2y agoMore common in the UK
- commodoreboxer 2y agoI have, but only as an idiom, never literally. E.g. "Microsoft just keeps hoovering up companies", but the literal act of vacuuming is only called vacuuming.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI've also never heard anyone call photocopying "xeroxing". I'm guessing maybe it's an age thing.
- latexr 2y agoIt depends on the region. In certain countries Gillette is used for any shaving razor.
- albert_e 2y agogrowing up in India over past 4 decades .. 'Xerox' was/is the default and most common word used for photocopying ... only recently have I started using/hearing the term 'photocopy'. every town and every street had "XEROX shops" where people went to get various documents photocopied for INR 1 per page for example Most photocopy centers are still called XEROX Shops -- and their boards say that in big bold text: https://www.google.com/search?q=xerox+shop+india&udm=2 https://www.google.com/search?q=xerox+shop+india&udm=2 It doesnt matter if they use Canon, HP, or other brands of machines
- taneq 2y agoIt was the fashion at the time, even if the hoover did keep bumping the onion. (This is actually really interesting, I had no idea that 'hoover' was specifically a U.K. thing that didn't make it to the U.S.)
- dmd 2y agoEveryone I know from the UK says "hoovering" 100% of the time instead of vacuuming.
- joseda-hg 2y agoIt might just be a regionalism, it's not uncommon that such genericization only applies to specific dialects (Like calling all sodas coke)