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From: mgh@hou5h.UUCP (Marcus Hand)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Tradenames used as generic nouns
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 16:33:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 16:33:33 1985
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In <1312@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP says:

> Aspirin as a trademark was confiscated (along with the process) by the US
> government during World War I and distributed to various chemical companies.
> It was not a evolutionary process. (And in Europe, Bayer SG makes Aspirin,
> and everyone else sells ASA (Acetyl Salicylic Acid)

Oh no they don't (sell ASA).  I have swallowed many an aspirin BPC or BP
(Brittannica Pharmacopaeia, I think),  and whatever some of the more right
wing Torys and left wing Labourites might wish to think, Britain is definately
part of Europe geographically, demographically, politically and geologically.
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			Marcus Hand	(hou5h!mgh)