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How to spell bus
What it means: A vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport.
In a sentence: The yellow bus takes us to school every morning.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as buss or busse.
Same family: buses, bused, bussing, minibus, schoolbus. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "bus" comes from the Latin phrase "omnibus," meaning "for all." It was first used in the 1800s to describe public carriages that carried many passengers.
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