duck tape?
John McChesney-Young
panis at PACBELL.NET
Sat Jul 23 13:53:56 UTC 2005
Margaret Lee wrote:
> I was at Home Depot the other day and saw duct
> tape spelled as "duck tape" on the package
> label.
> Has anyone else seen this spelling? Is it an
> eggcorn?
See:
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/DT101/index.html
for a full explanation, which boils down to "Duck" as both the original
name for the tape and now a trademark of Duck brand (a division of
Henkel Consumer Adhesives) in Avon, Ohio. The tape got its name from its
ability to shed water and the maker's use of cloth duck for a layer.
The Wikipedia entry is worth looking at too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
John
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