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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-ageor 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.