ColdWater@lemmy.ca to KDE@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish · edit-21 month agoI somehow turn my Recycled Bin into Wastebin.lemmy.caexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down12
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkI somehow turn my Recycled Bin into Wastebin.lemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to KDE@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 month agoMaybe a translation thing? American vs British English?
minus-squareColdWater@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 month 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-21 month 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-21 month agoMight it be some version in a formerly British colonised country? Sometimes they use more archaic expression in English, idk
minus-squareddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoI didn’t know Animal Crossing had it’s own English version!
minus-squareHouseWolf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI’ve only used British-English and it’s Wastebin for me.
Maybe a translation thing? American vs British English?
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 didn’t know Animal Crossing had it’s own English version!
I’ve only used British-English and it’s Wastebin for me.