This question came up today in the office. We sell single direction bus trips through our site (wanderu.com) but have not agreed on which English word(s) should be used in text.
Is it one-way or one way? Does one or the other communicate that “way” is a noun (e.g. direction) as opposed to a verb (e.g. method to an end)?
We consulted the Wikipedia disambiguation page, One-way, which links to pages like One-way traffic. This English for these pages would suggest “one-way” is the appropriate word. The images on the traffic page, however, has two words.
Thanks in advance!
Answer
The correct expression for a ticket is one-way:
(Of a ticket) allowing a person to travel to a place but not back
again; single.
The confusion is that on the sign it is not referring to one-way traffic, but rather to the one way that you are permitted to travel on the street: one direction.
In reference to the ticket, one-way is the adjective modifying the noun ticket. In reference to the sign, one is the adjective modifying the noun, way.
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Source : Link , Question Author : MattTheRat , Answer Author : ScotM
