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Why do people keep saying ‘I am going to make a xerox of this’ when they are just going to copy a document? ?

Everyone I am around says ‘I’m going to make a xerox of this’ instead of saying ‘I’m going to copy this, 

Is ‘making a xerox’ some sorta fancy wording ? 

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  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago
    Favourite answer

    Xerox is the name of a copy machine manufacturer. Their name because synonymous with "copy" because the machines were so common. It's similar to calling facial tissue by the well known brand name Kleenex.

  • 2 weeks ago

    who hoovers a carpet...?

    Source(s): @that one guy
  • zipper
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Because in the beginning that is the only thing out there that would make a copy, so it became the term of usage!

  • 3 weeks ago

    Xerox invented the photocopier.  

    Do you Hoover the carpet, use a Kleenex or a Band-Aid, take an Aspirin or put the trash in a Dumpster? 

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    you know that xerox is a generic way to say make a copy

      it's the same as when you say you want a kleenex when all you mean is a tissue

  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 weeks ago

    Have some fun and ask one of your coworkers to mimeograph a document for you.

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    Xerox is a brand name.  They were once the primary manufacturer of office copy equipment.  Kind of like Kleenex, the brand name has become shorthand for the thing itself.

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