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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for August 20, 1999
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bus [n. BUS]
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A bus is a long passenger vehicle with a central aisle and seats
along the sides. It can also be a cart for carrying dishes in a
restaurant, a metal bar that distributes electricity to many
different devices, or a group of electrical lines that carries data
signals. Strangely, all these meanings are closely related.
In France in 1828, a new kind of conveyance was invented. It was
called a "voiture omnibus," where the first word was French for
"carriage" and the second was Latin for "for all." The new kind of
carriage caught on quickly in England, where it was simply called the
omnibus. In a strange twist of linguistics, the name was shortened
to bus, leaving only the suffix of the original Latin word without
the root.
Since a bus carried a collection of diverse people, the same word
became applied to other things having to do with diverse collections,
such as the cart for dishes and the electrical cables for power and
data distribution.
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