ColdWater@lemmy.ca to KDE@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish · edit-22 months agoI somehow turn my Recycled Bin into Wastebin.lemmy.caimagemessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down12
arrow-up180arrow-down1imageI somehow turn my Recycled Bin into Wastebin.lemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to KDE@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squareColdWater@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-22 months agois wastebin an American English word? because I changed mine from GB English to AC English after having issue with locale setting.
minus-squareDark Arc@social.packetloss.gglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-22 months agoIt is not; it’s a distinctly British-influenced if not outright British term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoMight it be some version in a formerly British colonised country? Sometimes they use more archaic expression in English, idk
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThat does not narrow things down.
minus-squareHouseWolf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI’ve only used British-English and it’s Wastebin for me.
is wastebin an American English word? because I changed mine from GB English to AC English after having issue with locale setting.
It is not; it’s a distinctly British-influenced if not outright British term.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container
Might it be some version in a formerly British colonised country?
Sometimes they use more archaic expression in English, idk
That does not narrow things down.
I’ve only used British-English and it’s Wastebin for me.