Re: buses or busses?

Subject: Re: buses or busses?
From: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:25:50 -0700

On 7/5/2012 12:43 PM, Joyce -dot- Fetterman -at- L-3com -dot- com wrote:

When writing of vehicles, it's "buses". When writing of electronics, it
used to be "busses", but I'm told that the usage is changing to "buses"
for both types.

IEEE uses both forms in some contributed documents.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=busses&x=0&y=0

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=buses&x=0&y=0

But only the "buses" form in its published standards documentation.
http://odysseus.ieee.org/query.html?qt=buses

You can go to the advanced search page to search for the exact word "busses" and it is not it any of the published standards.
http://odysseus.ieee.org/query.html?qt=busses&charset=iso-8859-1&style=standard&col=sa






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