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Totally bodged blue Toter-brand recycling wheelie bin.[/caption]
Most people in my little corner of the world call this crumpled little thing a "blue bin." Some, if they work in the local waste-hauling business, likely call it a "Toter" after the company that made the bin. Beginning in the late 1990s Vancouver invested in hundreds of thousands of Toter-brand blue bins for recycling and grey bins for residential garbage.
But in the UK -- the cradle of the English language -- people would almost certainly call it a "wheelie bin."
Apparently all the real heavy lifting, language-wise, was taken care of ages ago by their ancestors. These days the British people just have fun with their language.
And not just people in the UK but also people in Australia and New Zealand. Together they share a subset of English I call Ukanzish.
Totally bodged blue Toter-brand recycling wheelie bin.[/caption]Most people in my little corner of the world call this crumpled little thing a "blue bin." Some, if they work in the local waste-hauling business, likely call it a "Toter" after the company that made the bin. Beginning in the late 1990s Vancouver invested in hundreds of thousands of Toter-brand blue bins for recycling and grey bins for residential garbage.
But in the UK -- the cradle of the English language -- people would almost certainly call it a "wheelie bin."
Apparently all the real heavy lifting, language-wise, was taken care of ages ago by their ancestors. These days the British people just have fun with their language.
And not just people in the UK but also people in Australia and New Zealand. Together they share a subset of English I call Ukanzish.
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