Comment 20 for bug 406626

Here's some other statistics using the search (I see what you are saying about the mixture of nouns, verbs and adjectives though) including the words when used together without hyphenation (e.g. "rubbish bin")

http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=rubbish => 2196
http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=trash => 219

http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=rubbish+bin => 42
http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=trash+can => 11
http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=trash+bin => 1

http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=wastebin => 13
http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=waste+bin => 21

http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=waste+basket => 5
http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=wastebasket => 7