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Old October 21st 03, 11:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel Colin Rosenstiel is offline
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In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

Jason wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:35:54 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

4) Ban people who can't spell buses.


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=buses
bus
n. pl. bus·es or bus·ses
[snip]

It's not the OED I know, but is accepted.


Accepted in the US, maybe. The site uses American dictionaries and is
based in Los Angeles, so it's not surprising that it includes the
American variant spelling "busses". The plural of "bus" in British
English is always "buses". (Source: New Oxford Dictionary of English,
2001)


Given that the derivation of "bus" is as an abbreviation of "omnibus", I
should b* well hope so.

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