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Another British English oddity is with Mac OS. Classic Mac OS had a British version until circa Mac OS 8, which called the Trash the Wastebasket. But the icon w

Another British English oddity is with Mac OS. Classic Mac OS had a British version until circa Mac OS 8, which called the Trash the Wastebasket. But the icon wasn't changed, so was still visually a dustbin. British English returned at some point with recent Mac OS X versions, but now the icon really is a wastebasket, they called it the Bin. (If anyone has this British English Windows 11, is it still the Recycle Bin, or the more British Recycling Bin?)

mig39 3y ago
Gives new meaning to putting my shell scripts in /usr/local/bin :-)
BenFeldman1930 3y ago
I check out what's under the bonnet.
bobbyi 3y ago
Recycling Bin is the normal name in US English too. I'm in the US and when I search google for "Recycle Bin" (https://www.google.com/search?q=recycle+bin https://www.google.com/search?q=recycle+bin), the results (in order) are * "Recycling Bins" from Home Depot * "Recycling Bins" from Amazon * "Find the Recycle Bin" from Microsoft * "Recycling Bins" from Lowes.com * "Recycle Bins" from Target * "Recycling Bins" from Walmart
Kwpolska 3y ago
It's still Recycle Bin in the British version of Windows.
- zamadatix 3y ago
  On Windows, I think it has always been "Recycle Bin" in any English dialect since the beginning. I guess that leaves a question I never thought of: what do the British call a recycling bin?
  - zabzonk 3y ago
    we call it the "recycling bin", or the "recycling"
johnwalkr 3y ago
Dustbin is also UK English, and I (Canadian) don’t actually know what “visually a dustbin” looks like. In Japanese/English spoken in Japan, “dustbox” is also a term sometimes used for what I would call a small garbage can. Do they also localize the folder path? It’s “./Trash” in US english
- fredoralive 3y ago
  A dustbin is I believe called a trashcan in North America, ie: it’s what the Classic Mac OS Trash / “Wastebasket” icon shows. A (usually) metal cylindrical container for rubbish with a lid, usually kept outside. Nowadays in the UK mostly replaced by wheelie bins… It's still internally .Trash, as that isn't user visible I suspect it's the same for all localisations of Mac OS.
whimsicalism 3y ago
Recycle Bin is oddly enough not idiomatic American english either (we would call it as you do).
codegeek 3y ago
In America, we usually either say "Trash Can" or "Recycle Bin". For some reason, we don't do Trash Bin or Recycle Can.

mig39 3y ago

Gives new meaning to putting my shell scripts in /usr/local/bin :-)

BenFeldman1930 3y ago

I check out what's under the bonnet.

bobbyi 3y ago

Recycling Bin is the normal name in US English too. I'm in the US and when I search google for "Recycle Bin" (https://www.google.com/search?q=recycle+bin https://www.google.com/search?q=recycle+bin), the results (in order) are * "Recycling Bins" from Home Depot * "Recycling Bins" from Amazon * "Find the Recycle Bin" from Microsoft * "Recycling Bins" from Lowes.com * "Recycle Bins" from Target * "Recycling Bins" from Walmart

Kwpolska 3y ago

It's still Recycle Bin in the British version of Windows.

zamadatix 3y ago
On Windows, I think it has always been "Recycle Bin" in any English dialect since the beginning. I guess that leaves a question I never thought of: what do the British call a recycling bin?
- zabzonk 3y ago
  we call it the "recycling bin", or the "recycling"

johnwalkr 3y ago

Dustbin is also UK English, and I (Canadian) don’t actually know what “visually a dustbin” looks like. In Japanese/English spoken in Japan, “dustbox” is also a term sometimes used for what I would call a small garbage can. Do they also localize the folder path? It’s “./Trash” in US english

fredoralive 3y ago
A dustbin is I believe called a trashcan in North America, ie: it’s what the Classic Mac OS Trash / “Wastebasket” icon shows. A (usually) metal cylindrical container for rubbish with a lid, usually kept outside. Nowadays in the UK mostly replaced by wheelie bins… It's still internally .Trash, as that isn't user visible I suspect it's the same for all localisations of Mac OS.

whimsicalism 3y ago

Recycle Bin is oddly enough not idiomatic American english either (we would call it as you do).

codegeek 3y ago

In America, we usually either say "Trash Can" or "Recycle Bin". For some reason, we don't do Trash Bin or Recycle Can.