Buses or Busses?

[Thesius]

Bussys

 

[LiveOVErdrive]

spi-derman



I have a linguistics degree, but I think you're thinking of @bostjan, he's much more on point with the historical linguistics, I'm better with broader theoretical stuff.

My take here is that linguistics tries to describe how language is used, not what is "correct," so all of these forms that people are giving are "correct" in that they successfully communicate what the person using them is trying to communicate. Any perception we have of wrongness is more sociocultural/geographical.



I can't remember exactly what it's called, but "intresting"/"intersting" this is a form of regular sound change where "extraneous" vowels get dropped. The intersting thing about sound changes is that many of them are conditioned in part by our physiology, so certain constructions tend to change in certain predictable ways across human language in general.

In this case, it's probably just a lot easier/smoother to say "intresting." All languages have examples of similar historical sound changes that are now codified as "correct" forms, though I'm drawing a blank on good examples right now.

My historical linguistics classes are fully ten years behind me at this point, but here's a great article about metanalysis, another form of sound change, with some nifty examples and mythbusting to boot:*

'A norange' - the meaning and origin of this phrase

The meaning and origin of the phrase 'A norange'.

www.phrases.org.uk

*incidentally, I looked this article up because my historical linguistics professor introduced the "a norange" myth to us as a factual example of metanalysis. I have shared it many times since before learning today that it's bunk. he's a great professor but it just goes to shows.....

I remember seeing some examples of this, like how "horse" used to be "hros" and "bird" used to be "brid". And how it is natural for "ask" to transition to "axe". Oddly that one is harder to say for me. Probably because I pronounce it "ass".

 

[STRHelvete]

The proper plural is

 

[StevenC]

“busses” used in the UK

I have never once seen this in 28 years living here

 

[tedtan]

I have never once seen this in 28 years living here

I don’t know how common it is, but I’ve seen it used in user manuals for consoles by Neve and Trident as well as in Sound on Sound articles, though SOS seems to use both spellings.

 

[c7spheres]

'Buses' for a type of vehicle, "Busses' for mixing boards.

 

[StevenC]

I don’t know how common it is, but I’ve seen it used in user manuals for consoles by Neve and Trident as well as in Sound on Sound articles, though SOS seems to use both spellings.

I guess busses could be a verb. Like something that is bussin'.

 

[jaxadam]

I guess busses could be a verb. Like something that is bussin'.

You mean like "who in the fuck is bussin' caps up out them bushes?"

 

[StevenC]

You mean like "who in the fuck is bussin' caps up out them bushes?"

That sort of thing yeah

 

[BMFan30]

That hyphen can buzz off and go hang out with the one from Spiderman.

So is it Spoderman?

Or Spotter, man?

 

[STRHelvete]