Meanwhile, at the Waterfront, the left lane on Dock Road is reserved for specific vehicles:
The only problem being that the accepted plural of the word ‘bus’ is ‘buses’. That’s not to say that the erstwhile road painters are entirely incorrect though, merely that they are wildly out of date:
In 21st-century English, buses is the preferred plural of the noun bus. Busses appears occasionally, and dictionaries list it as a secondary spelling, but it’s been out of favour for over a century. This is true in all main varieties of English.
As I mentioned yesterday, visiting Ye Olde Aquarium was on our list over the weekend, before catching the last stagecoach home.
Haha I am guilty of this. Some days its buses some days its busses. My fingers run away with me…
Gina > There’s no excuse. You wouldn’t make that mistake with carrrss or trainnnsssses.
Well of course not. Those would just look silly. Really!