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kowenicki said:

Dallinor said:

kowenicki said:

What a load of condescending garbage.

I wasn't aware brits were using the word 'garbage'. Becoming more americanised by the day.

Lol. Oh dear. Virtually nothing in US abused English is new.  

 

Garbage:

 

Origin: 

1400–50; late Middle English:  discarded parts of butchered fowls;compared with garbelage  the removal of waste from spices (< Anglo-French, Old French;  see garble, -age) or Old French garbage  tax onsheaves of grain, though shift of sense, and form in first case, isunclear

Synonyms 

2. litter, refuse, junk, rubbish.

 

Yeah, I'm sure you just started using a late middle english word circa 1400 without any american influence.