If you find the word 'Trash', which appears when you mouse over the trash can in the dock, to be not quite what you want, it's easy to change. Open a terminal and type:
% cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj(don't type the % signs; those are the command-line prompt symbols)
% sudo vi InfoPlist.strings
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