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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 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?)

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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), 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

we call it the "recycling bin", or the "recycling"

I check out what's under the bonnet.

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

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