The Grammar Opera?

[thejessecougar]

The internet came in handy today after a work discussion about why our letter-size legal pads were called legal pads if they are not legal size, which led to a discussion about what the word is when a product name or attribute becomes the name of the item itself.

I ended up rooting around and finding antonomasia and someone else pointed out that

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don't keep me in suspense man