differences??

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 68710

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
>  
>  --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*

If an American wanted a container that functioned the way you've described a 
"skip," they would usually hire a Dumpster.  Some are more-or-less 
permanently installed in places that generate a lot of trash, but they're also 
what's used when special circumstances like pre-construction demolition 
create unusually huge amounts of waste.  My neighbor has one in her 
driveway right now!  Also, I can't think of any other term that Americans would 
recognize for this sort of receptacle, other than "Dumpster." 

P.S. "Dumpster" is one of those trademarks that is struggling to not become 
vernacular, like "Kleenex."