Help on britspeak?

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> catherine at c... wrote:
> 
> > Most English people would call the brown fizzy stuff coke, 
regardless
> > of whether it is coca cola, pepsi, whatever, (a bit like Hoover v.
> > vacuum cleaner) although a few may say cola and oldfashioned 
people
> > may say pop, but this is more generic.
> 
> Yaaay! I *knew* there was a reason I liked you foreigners! 
Using "coke"
> as a generic term for carbonated drinks is an odd Texanism, so far 
as
> I've observed over here. Yaaay! I do something the way the civilized
> world does! (sorry, that should be "civilised," yes?).
> 
> --Amanda, who loves that "hoover" is a generic in Britspeak. Jello,
> kleenex, and band-aid are other common ones over here.
> 
> What's a jacketed potato? A baked potato?

Yes, but it's jacket, not jacketed.  (Sorry!)
Catherine