Buss vs Bus (It's Bus)

[TheSynthScientist]

taxi!

[jancivil]

HA! was gonna say, "Don't make fuss, just GET ON THE BUS!!"

almost posted Crew Slut

[simmo75]

I was taught buss at SAE so always use it.

[foosnark]

Better write "busss" just to make sure.

[sjm]

I was taught buss at SAE so always use it.

Is that where it originated then? It's always baffled me that in the audio world, 50% of the people seem to misspell this simple word. You never hear people talking about a USB buss, for example.

[Aloysius]

I was taught buss at SAE so always use it.

Is that where it originated then? It's always baffled me that in the audio world, 50% of the people seem to misspell this simple word. You never hear people talking about a USB buss, for example.

Nobody would ever say that because BUS is included in the USB (Universal Serial Bus) acronym. What do you think of my Universal Serial Bus Bus? What???

[Googly Smythe]

I was taught buss at SAE so always use it.

Is that where it originated then? It's always baffled me that in the audio world, 50% of the people seem to misspell this simple word. You never hear people talking about a USB buss, for example.

Nobody would ever say that because BUS is included in the USB (Universal Serial Bus) acronym. What do you think of my Universal Serial Bus Bus? What???

Sahara apparently means desert, so Sahrara Desert means Desert Desert.
Mediteranean (did I spell that right?) I think means Middle Sea, so to say Mediteranean Sea is to say Middle Sea Sea.
So, yeah, Universal Serial Bus bus(s)!

[Googly Smythe]

In the North of England, people say pronounce bus such that it rhymes with puss (the cat, not the fluid).

[vurt]

not t' north where iyam, its t' buzz.

[justin3am]

I was involved in a similar conversation else where, this was my contribution:

According to Merriam-Webster:

The plural of bus is buses. A variant plural, busses, is also given in the dictionary, but has become so rare that it seems like an error to many people. ... Until 1961, 'busses' was the preferred plural of 'bus' in Merriam-Webster dictionaries. But the word 'buss' is a synonym of 'kiss'.

I've seen it both ways but I always felt like 'buss' is incorrect.
This SOS article made me laugh because they use 'bus' and 'buss'.
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques ... ompression

[cturner]

I looked up "buss/bus" in the Oxford English Dictionary this morning, and the short answer is that "buss" is still a legitimate alternate form "bus".

The main definition:


Note they include @vurt's "buzz" spelling (Cornwall!), and also that the etymology is a clipping or truncation of "omnibus".

Discussion of the alternate form "buss":


The OED is perfectly capable of calling words obsolete, so inclusion as a second form indcates still-current use. Note also that the second form is concentrated in electrical and electronic engineering use.

The "busbar" is where the electrical and electronic use of the word "bus/buss" comes from. Something like the PCIE buss is an "interface" between CPU and memory, disk, display, etc.; and the mix buss is where all the signals come together to be "summed".



Note also that other definitions of "bus" utilized the "buss" spelling. Here's a citation of "buss conductor" from the London Dispatch of 1838. Buses in those days were horse-drawn carts that could carry ten or so people.



At the end of the day, for me, this is what I grew up used to, so I use "buss":

[vurt]

it's not my buzz.

my buzz is a totally different thing

[Hink]

not t' north where iyam, its t' buzz.

well that's just confusing, trust me I mean something much different if I say I'm catching t' buzz

[vurt]

not t' north where iyam, its t' buzz.

well that's just confusing, trust me I mean something much different if I say I'm catching t' buzz

see my post, just above yours

i unlike my fellow northerners speak properly and say bus, for the public transportation vehicle.

[donkey tugger]

i unlike my fellow northerners speak properly and say bus, for the public transportation vehicle.

I think you'll find it's a Public Service vehicle, as defined in section 1 of the 1981 Public Passenger Vehicles Act as follows;

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/14/section/1