File talk:Zb 2009-03-28 09.jpg

You get them in Vancouver, but not in French. -Robyn 06:24, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Since that's obviously a scrap vehicle... I can't help but believe that this bus had been running in Switzerland during its former life. The yellow livery looks much like the standard livery of swiss Postbus (postal busses, largest bus company in Switzerland) and the sign is a swiss standard sign . They would be not even preferring french over german, there, because in Switzerland Merci is a german word. So this is probably not any strange but just imported. --Ekorren 07:10, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, we have similar signs as well here in Munich, it was just the language. Not that you don't see buses with all kinds of European languages in Munich, what got my attention was the fact that it was a bus for public city transportation, because these vehicles hardly ever leave their cities, let alone their countries. Heck, I should have taken a picture of a similar sign on an Austrian Postbus inside of the same fenced lot, saying Danke. By the way, it was definitely a French bus (it still had its license plate); and the sign also had the words Article R6.1 du code de la route on it, hidden by a branch on this picture. I'll look out for more interesting pictograms on future geohashes. Hmmm, and by another way, Merci is not that uncommon in the Bavarian dialect since the days of Napoleon, just like Trottoir, Portemonnaie and Potschamperl, the latter derived form pot de chambre.--Zb 19:00, 30 March 2009 (UTC)