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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 67214" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I think we have a lot of words which have never made it into the US dictionaries. A particularly contentious one is "ugg boot". In Australia this is generic, so the makers of Ugg Boots were not permitted to copyright the name, they could only copyright a brand name and not a name in common usage. But some US company began making these boots, copyrighted the name worldwide (via a US system) and then SUED the Aussie company which makes and sells ugg boots here. It was looking bad for a while but there is now a compromise - the Aussie company can continue to make and sell ugg boots by that name in Australia but they are no longer permitted to export them. Mind you, the US company CAN export them to Australia!</p><p></p><p>These boots are almost a winter uniform over here, for leisure wear. The short ones are found in every household as slippers, at least. The longer ones can be worn outdoors. I wore my long pair (and difficult child 3 wore his) almost exclusively, all round New Zealand.</p><p></p><p>We'll have to have a separate thread dealing with words from different regions. It could be fun! Because crikey, so we have some good ones!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 67214, member: 1991"] I think we have a lot of words which have never made it into the US dictionaries. A particularly contentious one is "ugg boot". In Australia this is generic, so the makers of Ugg Boots were not permitted to copyright the name, they could only copyright a brand name and not a name in common usage. But some US company began making these boots, copyrighted the name worldwide (via a US system) and then SUED the Aussie company which makes and sells ugg boots here. It was looking bad for a while but there is now a compromise - the Aussie company can continue to make and sell ugg boots by that name in Australia but they are no longer permitted to export them. Mind you, the US company CAN export them to Australia! These boots are almost a winter uniform over here, for leisure wear. The short ones are found in every household as slippers, at least. The longer ones can be worn outdoors. I wore my long pair (and difficult child 3 wore his) almost exclusively, all round New Zealand. We'll have to have a separate thread dealing with words from different regions. It could be fun! Because crikey, so we have some good ones! Marg [/QUOTE]
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