Sellotape
Scotch Tape
cellotape - not a brand
Postin’ “me too,” like some brain-dead AOLer.
Sellotape. I just looked and the stuff in the office cupboard is actually 3M ‘Scotch’ tape (with tartan ‘n’ all). Everyone here would still call it Sellotape*
*unless they were obliged to call it sticky back plastic.
I’ll see your “me too” and post “ditto.”
Looked like packing tape.
I call it bob.
Scotch Tape or just Tape too. Those of you who call it Sellotape, would you have known what someone was talking about if they asked for Scotch tape? I would have had no clue what Sellotape was prior to this thread.
It looks wide enough to be packing tape. The strange thing is they make Scotch packaging tape and this is the very brand that I happen to have, yet I only call this stuff “Scotch tape” - the thinner, 1/2" or 3/4" variety. The wider one is just called packing or packaging tape.
“Cheap cellophane tape” (because of the clear but yellowish cast. Scotch tape to me is a brand and is more white cast translucent. This kind of cellophane tape makes me think of old paperbacks poorly put back together with now-horrible crumbling old tape)
Sellotape, which I am aware is a brand name but for me has the same status as “Hoover” or “Xerox”. I would be quite prepared to believe that programmes on the BBC (such as Blue Peter) used “sticky-backed plastic” as an alternative, to avoid mentioning the brand name (the BBC has, or perhaps had, very strict rules on advertising), but for the fact that I thought “sticky-backed plastic” was that clear stuff with paper backing that has gridlines on it, and when you peel the paper backing off you can stick it to something - like a cheap laminate. Am I making sense?
I’ve always known that stuff as “contact paper”. Interestingly, that and several terms of interest in this thread show up here.
Scotch tape, but only because I looked at the link and realized the size. A larger size would be packing tape.
I was watching an As Time Goes By and they were referring to what I would call a Band-Aid but they used some complicated term* to avoid a brand name (not sure if the brand name used would be Band-Aid over there??)
*something about plaster but plastic somehow entered into it??
Yes. It’s way to yellow to be Scotch Brand tape. It’s cheap yellow stuff, so only cellotape.
“Elastoplast” is the brand name and “sticking plaster” the generic term for what Americans usually call a “Band-Aid” or “bandage”.
scotch tape.
Another vote (votes) for tape or Scotch tape.
I think Scotch sells cheaper yellowish (acetate) tape too; the non-yellow, invisible type sold in a green tartan package is their “Magic Tape”.