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Originally Posted by Colly0410
Yes perspex & plexiglas are the same stuff, think perspex is some kind of trade name. We seem to name things in England after their trade name. My vacuum cleaners are Vax & a Dyson makes but I always say "I'm going to hoover the carpets!" & "my cat is so greedy he hoovered all his food up!" My friends got a very greedy dog & she's called him Hoover, her other dogs called Dustbin, lol..
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Reminds me of a fellow from India that was on my senior design team in college...He had this weird word for Styrofoam, that IIRC began with a P.