I seriously didn't know that "bus" is an abbreviation of "omnibus" until today.

If only we went the other way, and everyone was calling them Omn's.

TIL: "Mob" is a truncation of "mobile vulgus" Like, it just literally means that the commoners are moving around.

When you are lost in London And you don’t know where you are You’ll hear my voice a-calling “Pass further down the car!” And very soon you’ll find yourself Inside the terminus In a London Transport, diesel-engined Ninety-seven horsepower omnibus

Pi for Pious. 3.14159 has never looked more square.

I usually take a taxicabriolet

The NYT used to write it as 'bus for a long time to show that it was a shortening of the original word. Same for 'cello.

The term "computer bus" comes from the term "busbar", which is derived from the Latin word omnibus, meaning "for all" I've always been entertained by etymology edit: oh, I'm not in the computer sub I thought I was

putting a baby in a perambulator sounds like it should be illegal

"Deb" as a shortened form of Debutante being considered modern, in-use language but "rep" as a shortened form of reputation being considered outdated is really funny to me because that's the exact opposite of what's actually true these days.

I'm not sure whether this was the case in 1720 but "brig" and "brigantine" refer to two distinct rig types in modern use

I've always seen it used in talking about bills in Congress. I had no idea it actually had other more traditional meanings. Learn something new everyday.

Oh spatterdashes Use it today.

(cha)ris(ma) *sic*

Wait till you hear about rickshaws.

You’ll find it sometimes on license plates in the US, that’s the only place I’ve ever seen it used

A lot of these have changed or aren't used anymore. Like we definitely say *photo* instead of *graph*, and I've never heard anyone use *pi* instead of *pious*. We could add in *sus*(picious, -pect) as well.

they forgot Piano(forte)

"omnibus" is Latin for "with/for everybody". It's a vehicle for everyone.

I knew it because one time I saw something about horse drawn streetcars and looked them up and came across omnibuses then. The only time I’ve heard the word used in modern times is as “omnibus bills” which are the negotiated budgets Congress puts together that are huge and sprawling and have all sorts of things in them because they cover a bunch of different things the government does. I’d say in terms of busses it’s not really an abbreviation anymore. It’s more the history of the word or where it originated. Abbreviation to me means everyone knows the longer word and actively choose to shorten it so the connection between them is still very active. Another one is “delicatessen” is where “deli” comes from. Or “luncheon” (pronounced like lunch-in) is where “lunch” comes from. I know those words because I’ve read older books and those words were more common a century ago. Would most people today know them? Doubt it Like I figured “car” comes from “carriage”, perhaps early train cars, which were called carriages, but no one makes a connection between them nowadays.

I'm surprised. In case anyone else was wondering, it turns out the French "autobus" is attested from 1907, from les « omnibus automobiles ».

CELLO IS AN ABBREVIATION??

Woah, I assumed it was short for autobus since that’s what it’s called in my language, but apparently that too is derived from omnibus! (Automobile + omnibus = autobus = car for everyone)

I just remember this time when I was at work and an elderly customer was asking me where she can get a bus - so I was telling her what bus routes were nearby and where they go as she kept telling me "no, not that bus" until I ran out of bus routes and asked her to clarify where she was trying to go. Y'all, she was looking for a universal serial bus. A USB. I have heard people call it a flash drive, memory stick, or a thumb drive, and I know what USB is an abbreviation for, but never in my life have I ever heard anyone refer to it simply as a bus. Was she really expecting me to not think she needed directions for a common mode of transportation? (English was her native language as far as I could tell)

yo that charity you did was real pi’ of you

I’ve heard that before, but if you asked me a few minutes ago what “bus” was short for, I probably wouldn’t have known

I feel like Rep is still a shortened form of Reputation, especially with regards to the Taylor Swift album xD

Fun fact: "fridge" isn't short for refrigerator (as mentioned on this list). It is short for Frigidaire, which is a brand name that used to be used as a term for a refrigerator, like Kleenex was for facial tissues. 

Neither did i, wtf? That’s pretty neat tbh

Factory is a short form of the original manufactory.

My kid has an alphabet book of different kind of vehicles published in the 1950s and the O vehicle is an omnibus. As a native speaker, reading that book was the first time I had ever heard that word

A bus boy at a restaurant is short for omnibus boy. As in, they do a little of everything.

Its called clipping in linguistics. Gymnasium = gym Medicine = meds Omnibus = bus It happens when clip apart of the word that not a suffix you can add to other words.

An omnibus was also known as a charabanc, at least in regions of the UK.

In English (and some Commonwealth) legal systems, “The man on the Clapham omnibus” is used as a hypothetical normal/reasonable person to measure the behaviour of the defendant against.

i think the full original name was omnibus carriage

Ich fahr omnibus. Aaaaaaaaaaaand now that song’s stuck in my head.

No tarpaulin?

ônibus in portuguese

I knew what buses and omnibuses were but I never made the connection. Also for a few of these, I knew the full word instead of the abbreviation. How exciting.

Is that why we have Omny cards to use for the bus where I live?

Taximeter cabriolet 🚕

The license plates for them in Pennsylvania said “Omnibus” until very recently. Also, I wouldn’t say “brig” or “rep” is obsolete.

The word "omnibus" as a vehicle is either extinct in English (I'm Australian and live in the UK) or very close to it. (My favourite usage is the legal test of an ordinary and reasonable person, the "man on the Clapham omnibus")