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by jbverschoor 901 days ago
Americans tend to use brand names instead of the words for things.. Xerox, Velcro etc...

We call it klittenband.. tangle band. Or tangle strip

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Not only Americans, xerox is a word for copier in other languages. In Mongolia, it's canon instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...