[HPforGrownups] Re: differences??

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 68671

 
 --snazzzybird, the bird with the word, wrote -

In the American version there's an overflowing *dumpster* near the 
entrance to the Ministry of Magic. In the British version it's a 
*skip*.

 
 
 Me -

This is obviously very nitpicky - but are dumpsters and skips really the
same things?

I thought a dumpster was a pretty much *permanent* rubbish receptacle which
remains where it is but is emtied as and when necessary (as well as being
the number one dumping spot for bodies in US cop shows) whereas a skip is a
huge yellow thing that is hired as needed, arrives on a lorry, is filled
with rubbish - often construction rubbish, and then removed when full (after
the locals have chucked a sofa into it).

K
*confused*