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On 15/09/2019 22:45, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I would use “motorbus” for the bus class, motorcar and motorcycle indicate there’s a system.</pre>
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Must say 'motor bus' sounds really quaint to an English speaker.
It's a term that belongs to the early 1900s when there were still
maybe a few horse-drawn buses around. It just makes me think of this
poem from 1914:<br>
<blockquote>What is this that roareth thus?<br>
Can it be a Motor Bus?<br>
Yes, the smell and hideous hum<br>
Indicat Motorem Bum!<br>
Implet in the Corn and High<br>
Terror me Motoris Bi:<br>
Bo Motori clamitabo<br>
Ne Motore caedar a Bo---<br>
Dative be or Ablative<br>
So thou only let us live:---<br>
Whither shall thy victims flee?<br>
Spare us, spare us, Motor Be!<br>
Thus I sang; and still anigh<br>
Came in hordes Motores Bi,<br>
Et complebat omne forum<br>
Copia Motorum Borum.<br>
How shall wretches live like us<br>
Cincti Bis Motoribus?<br>
Domine, defende nos<br>
Contra hos Motores Bos!<br>
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-- <br>
Steve<br>
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