Spelling of the four black rubber things on your vehicle?

It tires me to keep correcting the spelling of tyres.

Absolutely!!!

HAHAHAHA, ...... Must be near bed time ol fella!

Smart @#@#@

Cheers Axle. ....lol.

Ahh and there lies the problem.

If they are American Tires than that is the correct spelling for the product, if they are Australian then it should be Tyres.

So before we start a hate the Americans thread or hate the English or whatever it depends..

After all we still have culdesacs (hope the spelling is correct!)

Which is French and we don't live in France or speak French!

There are plenty of other examples

Well, actually they are tyres.

If the name of the company is Cooper Tires, then that is how you would spell it. However, the spelling of the product remains tyres regardless of the country of manufacture. In the same way that you would talk about American harbours, but New York Harbor.

Next you will have us calling Pirellis pneumaticos and Michelins pneus.

Matt.

I don't think they're consciously trying to rewrite the language but they just had difficulty spelling certain words correctly in the first place.
Probably an indication of their education level before the early settlers set sail for the place!
Alan.

And of course only the English would come up with a language system that has more exceptions to the rules than it does rules!

The English have always liked to compliment themselves on how important they are! (Used to be called small man syndrome didn't it?)

They have never accepted the yanks defeated them, are more prosperous, wealthy and successful than them.

Let the hate replies begin!

"So before we start a hate the Americans thread or hate the English or whatever it depends.."

Whoops, too late.

>They have never accepted the yanks defeated them

They weren't Americans then... they were still English.

Mike Harding