History TYRES OR TIRES?

I see the to spellings here on the hamb quiet often, a post this morning made me curious when the OP had written TYRES and I looked at his profile and his location just said from Kernow.

Yeah, I am well aware we are talking about the same thing, I suppose the spelling has a lot to do with what country you grew up in, naturally I am from the Southern United States and TIRES is the vernacular I grew up with.

What's your take, TYRES or TIRES and what country do you reside? HRP

 

My old motor pool sergeant at Fort Bragg pronounced it TARS! lol.

 

You being from the south it's more like 'taires' than tires...

 

Theater or Theatre?
Colour or Color?
Analogue or Analog?

 

Depends which side of which big pond you're on....

 

That sounds about right!

Well Southern dialect and spelling don't often go hand in hand, I say it pretty much like the previous OP says his motor pool sergeant called them - TARS. HRP

 

If on a tree swing or fence post in rural Nebraska we call em retyres

 

tires is how you feel about working on cars after a long day fixing a stupid little 5 min job, it tires you. Tyres are round black things.

 

The human language is constantly evolving and changing.

 

Tires in North America

tyres in the United Kingdom


I work with a guy from Trinidad and you can buy traction or smooth tires for forklifts .

He calls them SMOOD and spells it SMOOD on his work orders ! Hey I understand what he’s asking for , so I don’t think it makes him wrong !

 

That would be me then. It's spelt tyres over here in England. I suppose if I was over there I would spell it tires. Good old Queen Elizabeth said " There is English and then there are mistakes." Nothing to do with me just quoting what she said.

 

I believe that in England they had no Jalopies.
They simply preserved their junkers in a respectable fashion, due to being so frugal.
Since we are talking language

 

Tires Tyres Tars Taires, that's easy but................. warning going off the tracks here.
I gotta know something before I die.......................I have asked this many times of my British Columbia neighbours, what's up with that whole "ZED" thing when saying the letter Z?
Merry Christmas Y'all.

 

I have no problem interchanging from tires to tyres, but going from hose clamp to jubilee clip is a bit of a stretch.

 

That’s “tars”….: just like “oal”…in I changed the oal in my engine today.

 

Why?
It was the original trade name for the clips created by the guy who invented them and first patented them in 1921, who was of course English, which is why on our side of the pond we universally refer to them as Jubilee clips.
Just as many people here still refer to pretty much all vacuum cleaners as Hoovers.

 

Thank you for the explanation.

 

Tires in the trunk, tyres in the boot

 

Give it a go=Try it.

Off you go=Get the fuck outta here.

I need to use the loo=Man I gotta piss.

That's mullered=This is fucked.

Our C you Next Tuesday gets bandied about with little fanfare over there.

Piss off and fuck off pretty much mean the same worldwide. My takes for whatever it's worth.

 

Funny you should axe.

 

How about "aluminum" vs. "aluminium"?

British people be like: (no offense to my lim... um... British buddies.)

"It's Chews-day, innit?"

"Gotta to pop down to the shops to get a new pair of tracky b's."

"I got proper pissed last night and lost me 10mm spanner, dinnit I?!?"

"I work at the tyre shop, don't I?!?"

"Piss off, ya bloody wankah!" (Wanker can be replaced with "pillock" or "wazzock")

"Nice to see you... to see you... NICE!." (only the Brits reading this will get that one.)

"Right then, off to the pub."

The fun thing about Brits is, if someone dies it's "unfortunate" but if they've lost their phone charger it's "a bloody nightmare!".

You wanna have some fun? Ask one of your british pals to say "water bottle". Unless they're "posho's", it comes out like "wa-or-bah-ul".

There is nothing funnier than a Brit trying to do an American Southern accent, either.

Better yet, get a Scot to say "Purple Burglar Alarm". Impossible.

Also, If you say "Rise up lights" real fast, you sound like an Aussie wanting something to shave with.

 

"Bites" or "Shoes"

 

Smythe or Smith?

 

And the LA Dodgers beat the NY Yankees 4 -Nil……that’ll be the day.

 

It's always amazed me how the English people can mess up the English language! What a bunch of nutters...

 

Yeah... they're all "dicked in the knob"!

(again, no offence to my Brit pals.)

 

And I still don't know where to get my tires, tars , tyres?

 

Exactly. Using the term from somewhere else to try and be a "cool guy" is more than a bit lame though.

 

@GeeRam I wonder what they called the bits or bobs holding the hoses on say a 1904 10 hp Rolls before jubilee clips?