Hi Andrej and Philip! On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 04:59:54PM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > In en_GB you could probably also use "Rubbish" as the alternative word, > > but that does not work in the US AFAIK. Then again this is just for the > > en_GB translation, so that's probably fine. > > > > Most "en_GB" speakers would probably say "Bin" as the nearest > > translation from US-ian "Trash", especially since both can be used as > > both a noun and a verb, but I think that "Bin" is probably too short for > > the label, and would look strange -- might be worth a try though. > > What about Wastebin/Waste bin? I’m probably not very representative as > I’m not a native en_GB (or even just "en") speaker, but I don’t think > I’ve heard anyone saying waste basket, but I’ve definitely heard bin or > waste bin quite a lot.
Thank you both for your suggestions. I have just filed a bug upstream about this [1], but after doing that I discovered an old closed issue about the same thing, and the response was not very positive [2]. [1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Translation/en_GB/-/issues/9 [2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Translation/en_GB/-/issues/3#note_582937 -- Dmitry Shachnev
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