On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:26:09 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


"Joe Pfeiffer" wrote in message
t...
I always wondered if that came from Buss Fuses...

(I was recently very disappointed to learn that the phrase 'under way'
has nothing to do with weighing anchor, and my customary spelling of
'under weigh' was completely wrong)

Buss is an archaic alternate spelling for bus, according to the OED. It may
be something like "gauge" and "gage." One is listed as an alternate spelling
of the other, but "gage" has come to be specialized to the machining trades
for the most part.


Only in those colonies where they can't spell!


:-)

Mark Rand
RTFM