> On Oct 31, 2017, at 7:50 AM, Micah Cochran <mcoch...@athensal.us> wrote: > > > Please check your spelling of tire. > > tyre is the correct British English spelling. > > A tire (American English) or tyre (British English[...]) is a ring-shaped > component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the > axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface > traveled over. > > From the Wikipedia article on "Tire". Thanks Wikipeida! > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire> >
Excerpt from my old microprint edition of the Oxford English Dictionary under the word “tire”: > Probably the same word as prec., the tire being originally (sense 1) the > ‘attire’, ‘clothing’, or ‘accoutrement’ of the wheel. From 15th to 17th c. > spelt (like prec.) tire and tyre indifferently. Before 1700 tyre became > generally obsolete and tire remained as regular form, as it still does in > America; but in Great Britain tyre has been recently revived as the popular > term for the rubber rim of bicycle, tricycle, carriage, or motor-car wheels, > and is sometimes used for the steel tires of locomotive wheels. So basically the spelling in the UK was ‘tire’ for a couple hundred years and they decided to change it in the case of rubber tires. If OpenStreetMap had started in 1900, we would use ’tire’ rather than ’tyre’. :)
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