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That’s generally the terminology we use in the UK. Bus = something you just walk on Coach = longer distance and prebooked

satysin 5y ago
Yup. While not an official definition the following site has a decent definition of the differences https://www.wyattcoaches.co.uk/news/what-is-the-difference-between-a-bus-and-a-coach/ https://www.wyattcoaches.co.uk/news/what-is-the-difference-b...
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- signal11 5y ago
  That’s actually a pretty good explanation. My Concise Oxford dictionary app has this: coach(1) /kəʊtʃ / ▸ n. 1 Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys. 2 a railway carriage. 3 (also coach class) N. Amer. economy-class seating in an aircraft or train. 4 a closed horse-drawn carriage. ▸ v. travel or convey by coach. – DERIVATIVES coachload n. – ORIGIN C16: from Fr. coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary.
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    Single-decker seems unnecessarily restrictive. This certainly counts as a coach in the UK: https://greysofely.co.uk/85-seat-luxury-double-decker https://greysofely.co.uk/85-seat-luxury-double-decker -- it's the kind of thing you see bands use when touring.
    - signal11 5y ago
      You’re right. Your post inspired me to look up oed.com, which is the “full” OED and available through many British public libraries. The quality of that definition seems to be rather terse and restrictive as well. It’s got a lot of references to obscure and historic meanings of “coach”, but sense (e) is quite simply “a single-decker bus” with some references. And even good old Megabus (a budget coach company) has double-decker coaches[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=megabus+double+decker&prmd=inmv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&bih=635 https://www.google.com/search?q=megabus+double+decker&prmd=i...

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That’s generally the terminology we use in the UK. Bus = something you just walk on Coach = longer distance and prebooked

by 00deadbeef 5y ago

satysin 5y ago
Yup. While not an official definition the following site has a decent definition of the differences https://www.wyattcoaches.co.uk/news/what-is-the-difference-between-a-bus-and-a-coach/ https://www.wyattcoaches.co.uk/news/what-is-the-difference-b...
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- signal11 5y ago
  That’s actually a pretty good explanation. My Concise Oxford dictionary app has this: coach(1) /kəʊtʃ / ▸ n. 1 Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys. 2 a railway carriage. 3 (also coach class) N. Amer. economy-class seating in an aircraft or train. 4 a closed horse-drawn carriage. ▸ v. travel or convey by coach. – DERIVATIVES coachload n. – ORIGIN C16: from Fr. coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary.
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    Single-decker seems unnecessarily restrictive. This certainly counts as a coach in the UK: https://greysofely.co.uk/85-seat-luxury-double-decker https://greysofely.co.uk/85-seat-luxury-double-decker -- it's the kind of thing you see bands use when touring.
    - signal11 5y ago
      You’re right. Your post inspired me to look up oed.com, which is the “full” OED and available through many British public libraries. The quality of that definition seems to be rather terse and restrictive as well. It’s got a lot of references to obscure and historic meanings of “coach”, but sense (e) is quite simply “a single-decker bus” with some references. And even good old Megabus (a budget coach company) has double-decker coaches[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=megabus+double+decker&prmd=inmv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&bih=635 https://www.google.com/search?q=megabus+double+decker&prmd=i...