Talk:Velcro

Request for verification
Adjective and verb are lowercase, right? --Connel MacKenzie 19:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I would remove the adjective altogether, since it's attributive use of the noun. --EncycloPetey 20:05, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. Removed. Equinox ◑ 19:08, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The suable publishers tend to show it capitalised (Books, News, Scholar); Groups has more lower case. Other dictionaries also show it mostly capitalised as a noun, less consistently for verb. Both upper- and lower-case forms are attestable, I expect, even the upper case form of the noun by the tighter standards for trademarks. DCDuring TALK 21:20, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Dictionaries cannot be sued for putting a trademark as a word (look at the money Google wasted on this one!!) as long as they can show citations. Wikt has the CFI process for this. The ONLY thing a trademark holder can do is request the dictionary to place the word as trademarked, as part of the process of maintaining possession. But if the people are using the word as a common noun, verb etc. then hard luck. The only thing that trademark possession means is that, within the territory to which the trademark applies, no other trader can sell a similar product with the same name. Trademarks are, believe it or not, a consumer protection rather than a supplier protection. If it were not like that, then you would not be able to sell a second-hand Ford. ;-) So. To sum up. This entry should probably uppercase trademark, and lowercase noun, verb, etc. IMHO. -- A LGRIF  talk 10:54, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Cited verb. Note that, though we only list a transitive verb sense (Someone Velcroed something to something else.), there's also an intransitive verb sense (Something Velcros to something else.). Also, an anon added one cite that I think might actually be a participial adjective (Something is velcroed- STATIVE to something else.). Also, I encountered a b.g.c. hit or two for a distinct non-participial adjective, meaning roughly “having Velcro” or “that Velcros”, but I'm not sure whether the capitalized spelling of it meets CFI. (It's not nearly as common as the attributive use of the bare noun in the same sense.) —Ruakh TALK 20:01, 16 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Passed, struck. - 00:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)