Talk:Rain tyre

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This entry should be combined into a more comprehensive article on race car tires as should a number of other articles related to tires.GeorgeTheCar 17:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

American/British English

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If the tire article uses American English, shouldn't this one, as well? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DMPowerade (talk • contribs) 03:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure what the precedent is in this special case. I'd agree that it should be the tire spelling since this article is like a sub-article of that one. This article's spelling should be consistent with that of its "parent" article. Dwr12 (talk) 21:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

From the 15th to the 17th centuries the spellings tire and tyre were used without distinction;^[1] but by 1700 tyre had become obsolete and tire remained as the settled spelling.^[1] In the UK, the spelling tyre was revived in the 19th century for pneumatic tires, though many continued to use tire for the iron variety. The Times newspaper in Britain was still using tire as late as 1905.^[2] The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica states that "[t]he spelling 'tyre' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US",^[3] while Fowler's Modern English Usage of 1926 says that "there is nothing to be said for 'tyre', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own [sc. British] older & the present American usage".^[1]

So ... I'm changing it. Don'tKnowItAtAll (talk) 14:59, 19 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

^ ^a ^b ^c Fowler, H. W. (2009). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition. Oxford University Press. p. 655. ISBN 978-0-19-953534-7. Retrieved 2010-10-23. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^ Peters, Pam (2004). The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge University Press. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-521-62181-6.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 26. Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 1007.

[fowler-1] Fowler, H. W. (2009). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition. Oxford University Press. p. 655. ISBN 978-0-19-953534-7. Retrieved 2010-10-23. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

[2] Peters, Pam (2004). The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge University Press. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-521-62181-6.

[eb-3] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 26. Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 1007.

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