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> If I say "Dyson" and you're in the UK, you think of vacuums

As a British national, I always called that category of cleaning device "hoovers": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company

I'm sufficiently nerdy to think "Sphere" whenever the name Dyson comes up, but I'm sure that to most normal people even "Dyson sphere" will mean one of these rather than a K2 civilisation: https://www.dyson.co.uk/vacuum-cleaners/uprights/ball-animal...




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