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* Victrola (phonograph): A trademark of the Victor Talking Machine Company (later absorbed into RCA Victor). Something of a generic term for a phonograph record player in the early 20th century, but this use faded over time, and now people just call them "turntables" or "record players". (That is, when they're not asking, "[[What Are Records?]]")

* Visqueen (plastic sheeting)

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]: Not a product, but so successful (compared to other parody artists, even notables like [[Bob Rivers]]) that people on file sharing sites [[Misattributed Song|use the name on all parody songs]] - even those he didn't or would never write. He doesn't like it.

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]: Not a product, but so successful (compared to other parody artists, even notables like [[Bob Rivers]]) that people on file sharing sites mistakenly tend to [[Misattributed Song|use the name on all parody songs]] - even those he didn't or would never write. He doesn't like it.

* Wikipedia (aka [[The Other Wiki]]) (wiki): A registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. Frequently misused to refer to wikis in general. Wikia (Jimbo Wales' for-profit hosting company) registered multiple domains which [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12171977 infringed the Wikileaks mark] at one point as retaliation for a press release that billed Wikileaks as a 'Wikipedia of secrets'.

* Windex (glass and mirror cleaning spray)