19 Jul
2006
19 Jul
'06
3:23 p.m.
On 7/19/2006 at 10:40 PM Adrian Graham wrote:
PS, 'skip'? I thought that was a UK thing and
you lads called the big
metal
boxes 'dumpsters'? Then again I hear an awful
lot of UK-isms every time I
go to New York and Boston :)
The US term is actually a trade name, although it's become a generic term
over the years (much like "hoover" is a UK-ism for a vacuum cleaner). But
perhaps the UK term is also a trade name--perhaps named after someone
called Nigel Skip? :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster
Cheers,
Chuck