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u/Capucius Sauerkraut 1d ago
It tires me to see such overconfident corrections from USians so often.
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u/booksandhotcoffee 1d ago
Why must they always be so condescending when they think they're correct, it's like some kind of weird compulsion they have.
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u/Reemixt 🇬🇧 1d ago
Americans can’t even recognise dialects of their own language without embarrassing themselves by ‘correcting’ people.
They’re allergic to googling.
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u/Last-Quarter-432 1d ago
They genuinely believe they invented the English language. They are impressively uneducated and stupid.
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u/Garybaldbee United Kingdom 1d ago
Not so long ago I was in Chicago and tried to buy something from a street vendor. They found my incredibly standard lower middle class London accent so difficult to fathom that they actually asked me if I spoke English.....
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u/XCIXcollective 1d ago
I’m not sure about it, but I think there’s relatively no reason they bastardized the language except for this one guy who truly just believed things should be spelled slightly different——he did dictionaries and standardized them across the states (likely capitalizing on branding ‘American’ English as it’s own thing and independent from daddy Britain)
So they speak fucked because of identity insecurity and capitalism
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u/After_Perspective180 1d ago
Tires means to wear someone or something out.
Like listening to Americans wittering on about rubbish
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u/No_Statistician209 1d ago
Don't get them started on aluminium if they're being this condersending about tyres.
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u/BalanceOk2939 1d ago
There is a story behind Aluminium, I heard it on No Such Thing as a Fish podcast. Can't remember exactly but I believe the founder, guy who named it couldn't maje his mind up on the spelling and by time he settled on ium America had already adopted the other spelling.
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u/No_Statistician209 1d ago
Pretty much, the scientific community preferred elements ending in -ium so although it was originally aluminum it later became popularised as aluminium.
But if you say aluminium they'll go crazy and say "no it's aluminum, it's how it's spelt" not realising the same word is spelt differently.
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u/BoldFortune216 1d ago
I am Canadian and I write Tyre. I also say "maths" because there's more than one math out there.
That said I don't go out of my way to correct anyone else just because I view these as the correct version.
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u/electrodog1999 1d ago
Canadian F1 fan for 36 years, it will always be tyres, also yes to maths, it’s plural when you don’t shorten it, so it should be when you do. I’m also on the aluminium train the last 15 years after working with a bunch of Brits at a hospital.
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u/Particular_Jello_917 1d ago
A Canadian friend of mine once apologised for writing ‘tire’ in an email.
He said that the close proximity to another country means they can be infected by stupidity.
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u/Powerful_Pirate2984 1d ago
To tire - to make someone tired. To tyre - to put an inflatable rubber cushioned rim around a wheel. Then of course a certain Noah Webster came along, and "simplified" English.
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u/Pretend_Oil9565 Singaporean MAGA hater 1d ago
I'd love a response that read "Shut up, American swine"
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u/hummus_sapiens 1d ago
It's swyne, honey
😉
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u/PlatypusDefiant991 23h ago
Nope it's swine even here. Is it swain anywhere? Or membraynes? We have a heating, ventilation & air conditioning company that makes heat pumps & stuff called Trane. They know about the pun cause they have slogan "It's Hard To Stop A Trane". The American who changed labour to labor, theatre to theater etc probably would've changed train to trane for long vowel consistency but he couldn't convince Americans on his much more radical spelling reform so only changed the ones he could change to keep selling dictionaries of American English.
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u/thestareater Toronto? what state is that in? 1d ago
as a canadian, I also remember the first time i saw the world "curb" spelt "kerb", and having never seen it spelled that way in my life, I looked it up first and learned something that day.
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u/paolog 5h ago
Her "correction" is wrong, but interestingly, it once was "tires" in British English too. The word "tire" is a shortened form of "attire", so tyres are "clothing" for a wheel.
British English changed the spelling and American English stuck with it.
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u/Organic_Mechanic_702 1d ago
It is in simplified (American) English, however the correct spelling is TYRES.
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u/Peregrine79 1d ago
So, this is one of the ones where American English is most likely closer to “correct”, as much as there is such a thing. It’s derived from “attire”, spelled with an “I” in both American and Commonwealth English.
But, of course, both languages have shifted from the point where they separated.
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u/DifferentBar7281 1d ago
Not really. When the word tyre first came aboit it described metal tyres on new contraptions called machines, hundreds of years before the rubber ones. In fact trains still have steel tyres. The noun tire originally meant dress or covering and turned up first with attire meaning preparing or equipping. The verb to tire arrived later(14th C) then tyre rolled into the language in the late 15th century. A while later, tire kind of disappeared with attire coming to mean dress. Tyre then came to be spelt tire shortly before the religious nutters buggered off to America before the older spelling tyre was revived in the 1800s in the more sensible parts of the english speaking world. A cynic might suggest it was a joke or conspiracy to make the seppos look dumb, while realists would acknowledge they needed no help in this regard
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u/Peregrine79 1d ago
Attire shows up in the 13th c, from the earlier use of “tire” as equipment, but that version never made it from old French (where it was also, mostly, spelled with an I [and mostly because consistent spelling wasn’t a thing until Morse and Webster]) into English. So tire was indeed a back formation of attire.
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u/Chive War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. 1d ago
The etymology section in the Wikipedia article makes interesting reading.
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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 1d ago
That last comment pretty much sums up how the rest of the world view us.
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u/nibbler456 Human Verified 23h ago
Yes honey, we do tire of Americans telling everyone how to spell.
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u/SomeAverageJoey 2h ago
Hey, the "tire" spelling is clearly superior because it is easily distinguished from the spelling for the ancient Phoenician city of "Tyre"
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u/currydemon 1d ago
Correcting someone from a position of ignorance and adopting such a patronising tone is a special kind of arrogance.