• irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee
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      13 hours ago

      Its like googling something, i use the term even when i’m not on google. Biro is used as a generic term for pens a lot of the time.

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      13 hours ago

      In English, “biro” is the generic name for what is known elsewhere as a “ball-point” or “ball pen”. There may of course still be a “Biro” company somewhere, separate to that.

      [Edit] I mean English as in “language spoken in England” - I’m sure some of the other “Englishes” use a different word.