[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Expanding the scope of the en-GB translation

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Sat Aug 19 08:18:58 BST 2006


On Tuesday 15 August 2006 19:46, "Matthew Vermeulen" <mattvermeulen at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I definitely prefer 'rubbish bin', but that's just me, I suppose. Around
> here, at least, noone refers to anything except 'rubbish' and 'rubbish
> bin', never 'garbage' or 'trash'. 'Wastebasket': I agree with what you said
> on that.

In that case, I propose that the entries in the "Dialectical Differences" 
table remain the same, apart from "Wastebasket" which should become "Rubbish 
Bin". Since we have already been using Wastebasket in our Dapper 
translations, I suggest that this change takes place as of Edgy.

Any thoughts on this?

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