r/SipsTea • u/Quenki • 15h ago

Gasp! Just American things

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u/Jason-Smith168498 15h ago

trash can maps to waste bin too easily and that undermines his premise with reality

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u/San_Pasquale 12h ago

But both ‘trash can’ and ‘waste bin’ follow his argument of instruction + item. Where I live we’d just say ‘bin’.

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u/Hubey_doobey8242 11h ago

And most people in the U.S. just say trash.

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u/SP3NGL3R 8h ago

Garbage, for be.

What got me moving to GA from Canada was asking "excuse me, where's the washroom". .. blank stares. "The bathroom!" "Oh, over there". Or asking for "silverware"/"flatware" in a restaurant here is just met with a confused stare. "A knife and fork please"

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u/GetInYourBasket 14m ago

I love that the term bathroom actually means toilet room for most people. My bath and toilet are in seperate rooms in the house and it feels so wrong to call the toiletroom the bathroom as it has no bath in it!