Talk:Spackle

"Spackle" is an example of verbing. When I was growing up (in the 1960s), spackle was a material used for patching holes in plaster or sheetrock walls. Originally it was a powder you mixed like plaster of Paris, but it didn't get hot the way plaster did and gave you a longer working time. Later on you could get it pre-mixed. Nowadays I only hear "spackle" used as a verb, as in, "I need to spackle that wall before it can be painted." The material you buy, at your local home improvement center, is called either spackling compound or spackling paste--never just "spackle."

I don't believe this has anything to do with avoiding trademark infringement, as "spackle" has been used generically for as long as I can remember, nor do I think it had anything to do with the move from the powder form (which is no longer available as far as I can tell) to the pre-mixed form.

Dlivesay (talk) 15:08, 8 September 2013 (UTC)