By what name do you call them?

Language is dynamic. It moves with time, fad, usage and application in numbers. Of all languages, English language, especially the American version of it is the most adaptable. Of the most potent drivers of language shift technology and population rank tops.
lots of the words we use today never existed in the English lexicon Someone thought it through to either COIN, ASSIMILATE or CORRUPT them. Therefore, a little open mindedness will certainly not be out of place in understanding why certain people use certain words on certain occasions.
It gets to me when people make you feel uneducated because you the word JEEP to designate the type of car you drive or admire. They often than not cite Brand rights as reasons why such vehicles cannot be so called.
While we may as a people have failings in our application of registers, for once and again, we are spot on this and i have no apologies. I drive a jeep. What do you drive?
let us frolic around for a while.

Go to Facebook, type the word `facebook`. It comes with a highlighted warning, informing you that you have entered a wrong word.

Well, today, facebook is a valid English word. It is indeed a VERB.

Remember the advert, DON,T JUST SEND IT, DHL IT? DHL is not a valid word but FEDEX is now allowed as a valid English word. Same as FOREX, BIRO and many more
Jeep is now generic and it so applied. Yes,, it was a Brand, yes it may have been patented but world-scale application of the world has turned it generic.
Relating to or descriptive of an entire group or class; general is what is generic. But, for practical reasons, the automobile industry has to be specific to vehicle build to avoid ambiguity and also patent infringement.

But, hey, here in Nigeria, we no send them. 150million of us cannot be wrong, always,

So, teacher, where did you park your jeep?

Language is dynamic. It moves with time, fad, usage and application in numbers. Of all languages, English language, especially the American version of it is the most adaptable. Of the most potent drivers of language shift technology and population rank tops.
lots of the words we use today never existed in the English lexicon Someone thought it through to either COIN, ASSIMILATE or CORRUPT them. Therefore, a little open mindedness will certainly not be out of place in understanding why certain people use certain words on certain occasions.
It gets to me when people make you feel uneducated because you the word JEEP to designate the type of car you drive or admire. They often than not cite Brand rights as reasons why such vehicles cannot be so called.
While we may as a people have failings in our application of registers, for once and again, we are spot on this and i have no apologies. I drive a jeep. What do you drive?
let us frolic around for a while.

Go to Facebook, type the word `facebook`. It comes with a highlighted warning, informing you that you have entered a wrong word.

Well, today, facebook is a valid English word. It is indeed a VERB.

Remember the advert, DON,T JUST SEND IT, DHL IT? DHL is not a valid word but FEDEX is now allowed as a valid English word. Same as FOREX, BIRO and many more
Jeep is now generic and it so applied. Yes,, it was a Brand, yes it may have been patented but world-scale application of the world has turned it generic.
Relating to or descriptive of an entire group or class; general is what is generic. But, for practical reasons, the automobile industry has to be specific to vehicle build to avoid ambiguity and also patent infringement.

But, hey, here in Nigeria, we no send them. 150million of us cannot be wrong, always,

So, teacher, where did you park your jeep?

I call them trucks not jeeps, afterall Nigeria is a place where things get destroyed.

tpacalipse: I call them trucks not jeeps, afterall Nigeria is a place where things get destroyed.

Well, sorry to say you even shot way off the goal post in your own case. SUVs or Jeeps as it is popularly called in Naija is not same as trucks. Trucks are the class with a bucket or open carriage compartment.

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Right or wrong, lots of Americans call SUVs trucks