City bus

Mexican

el camión

El camión tarda diez minutos.

The bus takes ten minutes.

Rioplatense

el colectivo

El colectivo tarda diez minutos.

The bus takes ten minutes.

Castilian

el autobús

El autobús tarda diez minutos.

The bus takes ten minutes.

In much of Mexico camión is the everyday word for a city bus. In Argentina and Uruguay colectivo is the unmarked term (bondi is informal). Spain uses autobús. Camión means truck in Spain, so the Mexican city-bus sense does not travel unchanged.

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