Technically correct, but hogmany is exclusive to Scotland. That's like saying a Texan event is American not Texan.

Hogmanay isn't celebrated in the rest of Britain though.
If he was complaining about Tunnocks teacakes getting branded British, then you could play that card since they're sold everywhere in the UK.

Fair enough. But I thought that was from a new year eve footage since that's when it first showed up.

Another one is catsup and ketchup.

Heinz popularized ketchup.

Oh, like in Rhode Island everyone calls drinking fountains "bubblers", because the first drinking fountain ever installed in the state, in the state house (or some other gov't building) was made by a company called Bubbler, and that's what it said on the front.

Yeah that's what I meant. Jacuzzi is a brand. So all jacuzzis are hot tubs but not all hot tubs are jacuzzis. Hoover is the brand not the object name but became so synonymous the two became interchangable.

Another one is catsup and ketchup.

Heinz popularized ketchup.