Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Cragg wrote:
PEDANTS CORNER
> Before that I was just old enough for the last London trams which we went on
> every week on a round trip that took in three busses, a river boat
Tsk! The plural of "bus" is "buses". "Busses" is the plural of
"buss", which has very little to do with carrying passengers
(although, pace Mr Flanders, both of them might involve a transport of
delight)..
Adrian
Adrian Stott
07956-299966
Adrian,
You're my man! I was going to bring that up but couldn't be bothered
ultimately. The first time I saw 'busses' or 'bussed' spelt thusly was in a
report about bringing children into another school's catchment area. For this
we have to thank our American cousins who suffer from 'verbiation' they can't
see a noun without trying to make a verb out of it. "Do you folks want to
*weekend* at our place?" Yeeuucchh!
One last item about buses, or rather trams now. In 1952 my mum took me [4] &
my elder brother [8] on one of the last London Trams. As we approached the
underground tram depot in Kingsway my brother announced that there was a
monster waiting to eat us up. I looked ahead, saw that the tram tracks went
down this slope & into the dark. Cue me to have a screaming fit to get off the
tram before we were gobbled up!
Barry
Nb who'dhaveevilolderbrothers?
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