On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote: > 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’. :)
I seem to recall that 'tyre' was adopted as British engineering usage to avoid confusion with other senses of the word, 'tire,' similar to the way that one of the engineering societies decreed that henceforth 'fuze' was to be used for the explosive initiator, while 'fuse' was to be used for the electrical safety device. In any case, I don't think that there's any real controversy that 'tyre' is commonly accepted en_UK spelling. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
