Re: [MV] A Jeep is a jeep is a GP

David P. Dusenbury (dp@interpath.com)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:37:50 -0500

Jim Rice wrote:
>
> Seems funny to me that jeep is only for WWII when right up until the
> Army traded in the last M151A2, everyone referred to them as jeeps.

I might as well through in my 2 cents. Someone made the analogy to
refridgerator/Fridgadair -- A Jeep is still a jeep, although a jeep
maynot necessarily be a Jeep. A Fridgadair is still a refridgerator,
afterall. Did Xerox ever give up? Public usage can, afterall, make a
trademark name into an everyday word.

DP

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