Make Your Editor Cry: Bus (Awkward Plural)
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front)
The plural of bus is buses.
bus: a large motor vehicle designed to carry passengers usually along a fixed route according to a schedule
NOTE: Busses is an archaic plural now considered a spelling mistake.
The singular of bus is bus The plural of bus is buses. The noun bus conforms to the standard rules for forming the plurals of nouns in English.
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. (Richard Branson)
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library and more time on the buses. (Simeon Strunsky)
Gregg Bridgeman is the Editor-in-Chief at Olivia Kimbrell Press. He is husband to best-selling Christian author Hallee Bridgeman and parent to three. He continues to proudly serve in the US Armed Forces and has done so in either an active or reserve capacity for more than twenty years as an airborne and air assault qualified paratrooper, earning a Bronze Star for his service. Most importantly, he was ordained in October of 2001 after surrendering his life to Christ decades earlier.