Re: Ubuntu en_GB translation team

[Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2006, at 16:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
>   
> > Take for example the debate over what to name the 'Trash'. We  
> > settled on
> > Deleted Items for a number of reasons, which are chronicled on our  
> > mailing
> > list[2]. To summarise, 'Wastebasket', 'Wastebin' and especially  
> > 'Trash' sound
> > foreign to many English speakers, so we sought an alternative.
> >     
>
> I don't doubt this, and I fully support your efforts... but just out  
> of interest, what do those users call the thing on the floor that  
> they toss their rubbish into?  I can't think of that many different  
> names for it, and they're all similar enough that it's hard to  
> envisage much genuine confusion (especially as, on the GNOME desktop  
> at least, we nearly always show a picture of the recepticle we're  
> talking about as well).
>   

Bin or dustbin, in my part(s?) of the world.

--
Andrew