Comment 28 for bug 406626
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| Elliot Hughes (elliot-hughes) wrote Re: Deleted Items Folder inconsistently named in en_GB localization | #28 |
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Please change the description back.
It's simply not true that the word 'trash' is in common use in UK English for this context. It is a term from American English and is just not appropriate in a GB translation.
I think that most people would agree that the OED is a reliable source of information on this. So I quote from:
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1 chiefly North American waste material; refuse
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cultural items, ideas, or objects of poor quality:if they read at all, they read trash
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2 North American a person or people regarded as being of very low social standing:clubs patronized by rock trash
In both contexts it is referenced as North American. The correct UK term is almost certainly Rubbish.