Es tut mir sehr leid

I always snicker to myself when my english is corrected by Germans.  Occasionally it is over my word selection but more often it is my pronounciation.  You know, cuz we 'mericans don't speek so good.  It is engrained in them, especially among the well educated, that the British are the only one's who speak properly. I think the scene that happened earlier today takes the cake.

Guther (yes, that's really his name):  What would you call this?

B:  That would be garbage or trash.  However, since kids are taught British english it would be rubbish.

Gunther:  They would not be taught that in schools, they learn Oxford English.

Apparently, in my American ignorance, I have been unaware that there is a strain of the English species that has evolved in a way that they are beyond waste.