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  1. Buses are the main form of public transportation
  2. Buses are the main form of public transport

Which one is correct?

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  • Transport is usual in British English; Americans add -ation
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 14:49

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In British English, both are correct, and neither is more correct or formal than the other. The first just has a couple of extra syllables. Unsurprisingly, the shorter version is more usual.

Americans seem to prefer the extra syllables.

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  • Although British English recognises "transportation" as a valid word, it has a distinctly American aroma about it.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Apr 19, 2019 at 7:59
  • See english-corpora.org/glowbe/?c=glowbe&q=75093869 for the dialect breakdown (the numbers denote occurrences per million of words).
    – user3395
    Commented Apr 20, 2019 at 14:08

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