Quote Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey
Quote Originally Posted by massimo
I found funny also карандаж. Sure it comes from
www.carandache.ch
It's карандаш, as somebody already said, but yeah, I'm sure that's where it's from. It's just like "hoover", "sellotape" and "blue-tac": they're actually product names, but they've come to be... just words, in English.
it was a French painter that took this word as his pseudoname. (sp?)