On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:32:50 -0800, Loren Amelang wrote:
Back when I was in engineering school, I absorbed the idea that people
in the know spelled it "buss", as in bussbar or PC buss. After over an
hour of Googling yesterday, I had to change my position - I couldn't
find a single advocate for "buss", not even as an anachronism. All the
references I could find said "buss" has always been wrong for
electrical or data use, it has only ever properly referred to kissing.

I learned it as "buss" and still type it that way from time to time.

Did anyone else learn that "ss" was correct? Was it a regional thing?
A moment in time preceding the memory of anyone authoring web pages?

I think, linguistically, it came from the electrical buss bar, and a
computer bus(s) being functionally similar inherited the name.