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| From | Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: todays wordle: bused |
| Date | 2026-07-02 19:02 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <nanneiFa0lvU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <m3tsqjhw9h.fsf@pison.robolove.meer.net> <nak7h6Fmjt9U1@mid.individual.net> <MXc1S.831$Vos7.22@fx09.ams1> <1783003401-12588@newsgrouper.org> |
Le 02/07/2026 à 15:43, athel.cb@gmail.com a écrit :
> Sam Plusnet posted:
>>
>> 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.
I think it remains alive in jokey contexts. I recall remarking to Mme
Hibou that a train we took into Town late on a Friday afternoon was like
a tarts' charabanc. I hope the passengers had a pleasant evening.
It's interesting to flip between BrE and AmE here; the curves are rather
different (I'll leave to others to do any further investigation):
<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=charabanc&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false>
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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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