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maybe they have Rubber-tyred trams there ๐คท
A few things. Those are train tracks. Trolleys are something else that you have to go to San Francisco for. Second, "Tyre" is a city in Lebanon. "Tire" is a rubber wheel component. "Wheel" is the metal part which, in this case, goes on the tracks.
And finally no, "tyre" is not correct because the US has the largest English speaking population of any country - more than the next 3 combined, none of which is England. England is 5th; they don't get to be in charge of their own language anymore.
Except British English is spoken by, oh, I dunno, India, which easily outpaces the US by a factor of like 4.
And let's get down to it - both spellings are correct.
And if you must claim one to be "correct", then tyre wins by a huge margin, as it's the original form and I would assume a result of the French/Middle English amalgamation starting on 1066, so predating "tire" By some 700+ years.
So by age and number of speakers, "tyre* would handily be "more correct".
All this before even discussing the "synthetic" form created by Daniel Webster, whilst "tyre" would've developed organically. Let's not be prescriptivist.
In the end though, the greater import is there is no "correct" form - they're both correct, in context. If you can't handle that, maybe you should go back to school and take a linguistics class, along with some history, social skills, and respect for the cultures of others. That's usually called Kindergarten (or do you misspell this too?).
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A Fellow American who uses some British spellings because they make more fucking sense
Just open the article you schmuck
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Besides being wrong about tire/tyre, I also really like how you are completely wrong about "Trolleys" being something you have too go to San Francisco for... And that the OP didn't even talk about "Trolleys" , but "Trams"...
First of all... There's plenty of different types of Trolleys around the world, like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_trolley https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Stewart-Golf-R1-S-Push-Trolley-3-2.png
But now that we are specifically talking about Trams, they also exist in:
Just to name a few of the 403 cities around the world that operates a tram network. And comically enough, the San Francisco doesn't even get near any of the above with it's measly 5.16 miles of track. Even Los Angeles (82.7 miles) and Dallas (96 miles) has San Francisco beat.
Damn, that's a brave rant right there.
People get so riled up over it.
Well, that's mainly because it's a pet peeve that was injected into the thread rather than being part of the existing conversation.
Tangents aren't always going to draw heat, but the more you stack things up, the more likely it is.
That one had four or five stacks to attract attention, maybe more depending on exactly what gets counted as a distinct target.
Like is rejecting the British spelling the same target as insisting that the American spelling is superior part of the same idea, or two different ideas that are just linked? You break things down enough, and there's maybe as many as eight or nine inflammatory layers.
Kinda hard to not have people get riled up.
I'd even go as far as to say that a single statement that was more severe would have gotten less heat. Something like just rolling up and saying "fuck British spelling, you assholes" would definitely piss people off, but I do believe the extra layers drew more ire than that would have.
As a pet peeve, it's pretty damn unique. Never seen anyone argue that exact combination of points. If it was a troll, it was a damn good one, too, but it reads like a genuine peeve to me.
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Holy shit, this guy was featured on that community a whole fucking year ago, saying almost exactly the same thing. And his comment started with "as I've pointed out before." He's been this wrong for over a year, and still going?
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Nah, shitdumbassamericans say.
Let's be clear, everyone has their own dumbasses...
Yea, but anyone who isn't a dumbass should be capable of recognizing that nuance without it being stated explicitly.
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