Re: [Fwd: en_GB translation of "trash"]

[Bruce Cowan <bruce bcowan me uk>]

On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:21 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 22:20 +0100, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> > As I'm sure everyone knows, Ubuntu currently change "Wastebasket" to
> > "Deleted Items". Currently, I'd rather have cross-DE (and distro)
> > support on a term to use for "trash", including GNOME, KDE, XFCE and so
> > on.
> > 
> > I was wondering what people's thoughts are on what the word should be in
> > en_GB.
> 
> The Oxford Style Guide has the following entry for "trash":
> 
> trash/ (US) refuse, rubbish; -can (US) = dust bin (two words)
> 
> That's not particularly helpful, though, since not many of my files
> contain dust. I quite like "wastebasket": it seems friendlier to me than
> any of the other suggestions. I'm open to persuasion, though.
> 
> Wasn't there a long discussion about this on some list a few months ago?

I have no idea, I wasn't subscribed to the list then.

Personally, I like "bin", but that has other meanings.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce bcowan me uk>