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minus-squareskozzii@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50arrow-down2·3 个月前Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits. You may be technically correct, but you’re wrong. Lol.
minus-squareSchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down24·edit-23 个月前Sure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”. That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.
minus-squarelobut@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·3 个月前I know what you’re saying but at the same time, I’m living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.
minus-squareApepollo11@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·3 个月前Genericisation. It happens all the time! Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK). Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 个月前Aspirin (and bandaids in the US)
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 个月前Kitty Litter ** heard this one on the podcast Under the Influence Spotify link.
minus-squareInfynis@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 个月前Kleenex, Frisbee (which was actually a pie company), Google
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 个月前Did you hear the podcast too? I forgot about the Frisbee pie company part of the episode.
minus-squareInfynis@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 个月前I’m not a podcast guy. That’s a certified Dad Fact™️ lol
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 个月前Recently learned that “dumpster” is a brand name for a “skip bin.” “This skip bin fire of a government agency” just doesn’t have the same ring to it though.
minus-squareSpicy_Canada_Dry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·3 个月前they are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.
Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits.
You may be technically correct, but you’re wrong. Lol.
Guess I’m the 0.1%
Sure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”.
That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.
I know what you’re saying but at the same time, I’m living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.
Genericisation. It happens all the time!
Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK).
Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.
Aspirin
(and bandaids in the US)
Kitty Litter
** heard this one on the podcast Under the Influence Spotify link.
Kleenex, Frisbee (which was actually a pie company), Google
Did you hear the podcast too? I forgot about the Frisbee pie company part of the episode.
I’m not a podcast guy. That’s a certified Dad Fact™️ lol
Recently learned that “dumpster” is a brand name for a “skip bin.”
“This skip bin fire of a government agency” just doesn’t have the same ring to it though.
they are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.