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This disambig page currently implies that local offices of news agencies are to be referred to in plural as bureaux with an x. But how do news agencies and others referring to them really spell the word? ( plural form of bureau)

(Because both searching for bureaux and for bureaus give hits for bureau on Google, I use -bureau to filter out bureau in the following test searches:)

Googling:
"news agency" AP OR Reuters OR AFP -bureau bureaux gives about 14,300 English pages
"news agency" AP OR Reuters OR AFP -bureau bureaus about 15,000 English pages

"Associated Press" OR Reuters OR "Agence France-Presse" -bureau bureaux about 47,500 English pages
"Associated Press" OR Reuters OR "Agence France-Presse" -bureau bureaus about 185,000 English pages
Bureaus wins. (Only a small number of the search hits are for bureaus other than those of the news agencies.)

What do the news agencies use themselves?
site:ap.org OR site:reuters.com OR site:afp.com -bureau bureaux 742 English pages
site:ap.org OR site:reuters.com OR site:afp.com -bureau bureaus 230 English pages
Bureaux wins this one, thanks to Reuters.com, while both AP.org and AFP.com mostly use bureaus.
-- 83.253.36.136 14:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC) reply

The American Farm Bureau Federation lede has a link to this disambiguation page, but none of the entries here fit that organization. Another entry is needed, but what should it be? I am unsure, so I leave it for someone else to do, and to fix the AFBF link.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 21:47, 22 July 2019 (UTC) reply

The bureau is a bit confusing, so per the 1952 book by Gloag, "A Short Dictionary of Furniture" (pp. 154-158):

1. "Bureau" is a piece of furniture with hinged writing space of flap resting at an angle when closed.
2. "Bureau bedstead" is a Murphy bed that looks like a bureau when closed.
3. "Bureau bookcase" is a combination of a bureau and bookcase.
4. "Bureau cabinet" is a combination of a bureau and display shelves.
5. "Bureau dressing table" is a combination of a dressing table and writing desk. Later models by Chippendale lost the actual bureau.
6. "Bureau table is a type of a kneehole desk. Confusingly, it does not contain a bureau.

I am going to change the text, this provides a source. Викидим ( talk) 02:38, 28 January 2023 (UTC) reply

A source for the chest of drawers is provided in the corresponding article. Викидим ( talk) 06:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC) reply