Would I be unreasonable to leave my DH

[bronze]

on the grounds that he keeps on calling the vacuum cleaner (Dyson) a Hoover?
He's even brainwashing the children!

Yabu to leave him, but in this situation a good hard also imo is perfectly acceptable. Lol.

A what?

Slap. Or punch, whichever you prefer or make him do the house work. If he insists on calling a Hoover then maybe he should use it.

But it sounds daft to say 'I'm just going to Dyson the living room,' or whatever. Hoover is now a general name for vacuum cleaners, I think. With a small h. 'I'm going to vacuum...' also sounds a bit pedantic and we don't want to be that, do we?

Your DH sounds lovely.

I say 'I'm going to vacuum' as do plenty of other people I know (including his Mum) and it sounds fine.

You reckon he actually does the vaccuming?

At least he knows what it does - when I go off to see my parents with the children the dog knows I am about to come back because his master, my DH, gets the vacuum cleaner out. DH swears that he (the dog) bounds around wagging his tail and goes to wait in the hall for us!

yabu.
hoover is the accepted "generic" term for vacuum.
james dyson can never match up to that, no matter how great he thinks his hoovers are

I Miele.

I'm not saying he has to call it dyson ing

vacuuming will do fine

I beg to differ that 'hoover is the accepted "generic" term for vacuum'.

it is now though.

like Sellotape

...and Thermos

and maybe even Branston?

tupperware

i'll think of others

velcro

onesies

ooh look, an entire wikipedia entry

google is also one

Biro

perspex (Poly(methyl methacrylate))
is a trademark.

walkman

I don't use half of those either but I get your point.
Maybe it's because I put the word Hoover in the same category as settee or couch

I would make him keep doing the vacuuming until he changes his mind and calls it that, (well it gives you a break)