What is the preferred plural form of "bus"?

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00:00 What Is The Preferred Plural Form Of &Quot;Bus&Quot;?
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00:27 Answer 2 Score 3
00:42 Accepted Answer Score 21
01:14 Answer 4 Score 9
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Score 21

To be more precise, the citations in the OED’s entry for bus include 2 instances of busses and 9 of buses. In its own commentary, the OED uses buses. The British National Corpus records 1438 instances of buses and 10 of busses. The figures in the Corpus of Contemporary American English are 5139 and 116. I think that means you’re in good company if you use buses.

ANSWER 2

Score 9

Google NGram Viewer shows that buses is more popular than busses.

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ANSWER 3

Score 6

You will find buses is more popular than busses. Similarly, omnibuses was more popular than omnibusses

ANSWER 4

Score 3

OALD and CALD each lists the plural of bus as buses but adds that busses is also used in AmE. This agrees with MW which lists both forms. I would go for buses which applies to both variants currently.