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Re: todays wordle: bused

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On 02/07/2026 15:43, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> posted:
> 
>> On 01/07/2026 11:12, occam wrote:
>>> On 01/07/2026 11:52, Madhu wrote:
>>>> Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused
>>>>
>>>> [not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do
>>>> it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]
>>>>
>>>> the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.
>>>>
>>>> bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be
>>>> in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables.  both of which seem sketchy
>>>> in the my usage universe.  do others think it's legit?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus. "The
>>> evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter".  'Bused' (beewzed) sounds
>>> like abused.
>>
>> I'm not keen.
>> Are people "trained" to some destination?
>> Boated?  ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
>> Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
>> Coached?  Charabanc'ed?
> 
> Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since the 1950s,
> and not much then.

Not that I know of.  It remains in my vocabulary simply because it is 
neglected and needs the occasional outing.

-- 
Sam Plusnet

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todays wordle: bused Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-07-01 15:22 +0530
  Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-01 11:03 +0100
  Re: todays wordle: bused occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-01 12:12 +0200
    Re: todays wordle: bused Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-01 19:24 +0100
      Re: todays wordle: bused richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-01 19:08 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-02 14:35 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-02 16:23 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-02 17:37 +0000
            Re: todays wordle: bused "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-07-03 09:03 +0100
              Re: todays wordle: bused Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-03 09:43 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-03 13:11 +0000
                Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-03 17:19 +0000
              Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-03 10:53 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-07-03 19:54 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-03 21:05 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-07-02 13:40 +0000
      Re: todays wordle: bused athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-02 14:43 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-02 19:02 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-02 19:20 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-02 19:23 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-02 19:38 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-03 08:58 +1000
    Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-02 10:07 +1000
      Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-02 02:30 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-02 23:08 +1200
      Re: todays wordle: bused Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 23:41 -0400
        Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-02 22:53 +1000
          Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-02 17:35 +0000
            Re: todays wordle: bused Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-03 22:14 -0400
      Re: todays wordle: bused Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-02 12:08 +0100

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