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I've always wondered why "Shopping Cart" isn't called "Shopping Trolley" in the checkout flows of British websites...

One of our sites uses the word "hopper", and I was once told that when a client asks what it means, our UK people tell them it's an American term, and our US people tell them it's a British term.

Jokes on all of you, it's a Canuck word.

That’s funny. It’s definitely an actively used term in the U.K. though I can imagine people not knowing it. Outside of heavy industry I’d associate it with centuries-old flour mills.

I’ve found that often when my fellow Brits complain of a word being American it’s actually just an old English word we stopped using.

> Outside of heavy industry

Even rather light industry. Coffee grinders have a feed hopper.

The very first thing we do, when we create a new e-commerce website is to change "cart" to "basket" everywhere we can find it. Without that - as our manager says - we wouldn't sell anything on UK market

It's often called Basket to navigate this

because most people don't care that much, i've lived in the uk my whole life but my english is extremely americanized due to my use of the internet growing up

It is on Argos.

Argos is great. Like Amazon but you can walk in (at least before they started closing loads of their stores and merging them into Sainsbury's)

Same day delivery online before Amazon started doing it with Prime Now too.

Their app update release notes used to be hilarious too but they've stopped doing them, I think the person responsible left. https://thecircular.org/argoss-hilarious-app-updates/

It is on a few places, here it is on Argos - https://i.imgur.com/kik8y91.png

It is on some of them, but it isn't super common.

You find a lot of British-English terms are different from what we use in the US.

'isn't' means the same though

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