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- noun Plural form of
bus (alternative spelling ofbuses ). - noun Plural form of
buss . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bus . Alternative spelling ofbuses . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
buss .
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Examples
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There were many planes out there being loaded and unloaded that way, shuttling passengers in busses to Terminal 1.
Mexico City Airport 2007
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Spanberg indeed describes two kinds of Japanese vessels; one answering to the above description of Kæmpfer, the other, which he calls busses, and in which, he says, they make their voyages to the neighbouring islands, exactly corresponds with those we saw. [
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Delaying the busses is a defacto attendance requirement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » ACLU Found To Have Standing to Challenge Islamic (?) Charter School: 2009
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Delaying the busses is a defacto attendance requirement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » ACLU Found To Have Standing to Challenge Islamic (?) Charter School: 2009
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Delaying the busses is a defacto attendance requirement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » ACLU Found To Have Standing to Challenge Islamic (?) Charter School: 2009
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Since the busses will be arriving and departing from the same terminal, shouldn't be that much of a problem.
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Larry, as you know, the busses were a big problem before.
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Thousands of French people were walking there but our soldiers had gone in busses.
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Here they have a design to get the King to hire a dock for the herring busses, which is now the great design on foot, to lie up in.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Here they have a design to get the King to hire a dock for the herring busses, which is now the great design on foot, to lie up in.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661
tomsteele commented on the word busses
Hooray for kisses! But the yellow child transporters are buses.
December 24, 2006
chained_bear commented on the word busses
I added this in the plural because I'm not quite sure how the singular is spelled--though I suspect it would be "buss" so I'll add it there too. Anyway here's the usage:
"...there were occasions when Jack was tempted to ask his way of the many fishermen, English and Dutch, who haunted those perilous banks in their shallow-draught doggers, schuyts, busses, howkers, and even bugalets, and who made his progress all the more uneasy by lying across his hawse until the last possible minute or suddenly looming out of the darkness without a single light so that he had to throw all aback." --Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 285
February 9, 2008
alexz commented on the word busses
Looking at the ngram viewer for buses versus busses, there's a shift where the usage of busses was dropped in the 1920's
Looking at google books, it seems to be a case of people arbitrarily picking one spelling.
Link to Buses/busses/spelling google book search for the 1920's: https://goo.gl/FNf45X
A quick search shows several letters to editors of magazines.
" I am a great stickler for proper spelling, and I wish these signs could be put in capable hands and spelled "BUSSES."
August 23, 2015