English As a Second Language
- Colloquial term for "Reverse vending machine" (collecting bottle deposit)
I'm looking for a term people would use on a day to day basis for the machines where you return empty bottles/cans and earn your deposit back.
Wikipedia calls them Reverse Vending Machine but my Anglophone friend and I don't believe that's a term people would use on the street.
ChatGPT says the most commonly used term in the UK is "Bottle Return Machine" or "Bottle Return" but I can't find sources on the web for that.
TIA!
- How to call people of unknown gender in English? (he or she)
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/196311
> I'm from Turkey so English isn't my native language. We just call O in Turkish to no matter its he/she/it. Is there an equivalent of this generic term on English? > > I don't want to call he to a female or vice versa.
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