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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My daughter says “glue tack” instead of “Blu-tack”. As far as I’m aware, the product has always been called “Blu-tack” and there isn’t a generic “glue tack”, so the latter would appear to be an eggcorn.
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Hi Adrian—welcome back. The last few days have seen the reemergence of at least three regulars who hadn’t posted much in a while—pretty cool.
If your daughter wasn’t aware of any similarly named products, than her substitution certainly seems eggcornish to me. When I tried to trace this in the larger world, I ran into the problem that a Chinese company (Ninghai Xinjia Plastics) manufactures a product called “Glue Tack” that looks like a clear knock-off of “Blu-Tack”; I don’t know how widely distributed the stuff is, but plenty of sites seem to be referring to it. And then just to complicate things further, Bostik—the company that manufactures Blu-tack—also makes a product (apparently a glue rather than a putty) called “Glu tack.”
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