Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

Tristan McLeay wrote:
>
> Indeed garbage trucks are called that here too
> (where they collect the rubbish); the people who
> operate them are generally called "garbos" or
> "garbologists" in jest. ("Garbo", like "ambo", is
> a word that doesn't really have an expanded
> form that I can think of.)
In the United States, they're called "garbagemen."

Back in the 1970s, they started to refer to themselves
as "Sanitation Engineers." Now there already was a
group of real engineers called Sanitation Engineers.
They were the ones who designed sewage treatment
plants. So they had to change their name to
"Environmental Engineers."

--Ph. D.

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