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From: George W Frost on 14 Jul 2010 04:13

"Dingo" <dingo(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:53:26 +1000, "George W Frost"
> <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I remember my first couple of jobs I had to wear a tie
>>that stopped when I started working on a farm and a scarf replaced the tie
>>because it was bloody freezing
>
> Makes absolutely no sense - why would anyone wear a tie that was
> absolutely freezing?

I had left it on the clothes line overnight


From: Clocky on 14 Jul 2010 19:42
Diesel Damo wrote:
> Wow you can't even SEE the tyres!
>

Yeah you can.

Those things in contact with the track are the tyres!



From: John_H on 15 Jul 2010 03:46
Clocky wrote:
>Diesel Damo wrote:
>> Wow you can't even SEE the tyres!
>
>Yeah you can.
>
>Those things in contact with the track are the tyres!

Nope, them's called tires! Tyres are the pneumatic variety. :)

Contrary to popular belief, tire isn't an Americanism and it's
therefore still correct terminology for all but the pneumatic type.
(IIRC what's become the "English" spelling had its beginnings as a
trade name for pneumatic *tires* in the late 19th century).

--
John H
From: Clocky on 15 Jul 2010 07:46
John_H wrote:
> Clocky wrote:
>> Diesel Damo wrote:
>>> Wow you can't even SEE the tyres!
>>
>> Yeah you can.
>>
>> Those things in contact with the track are the tyres!
>
> Nope, them's called tires! Tyres are the pneumatic variety. :)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tyre

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tyre

My own Collins English Dictionary and fourth edition of the Pocket Oxford
from 1934 make no disctinctions between tyre and tire.

Make of that what you will.


From: Toby on 15 Jul 2010 08:30
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:46:11 +0800, Clocky wrote:

> John_H wrote:
>> Clocky wrote:
>>> Diesel Damo wrote:
>>>> Wow you can't even SEE the tyres!
>>>
>>> Yeah you can.
>>>
>>> Those things in contact with the track are the tyres!
>>
>> Nope, them's called tires! Tyres are the pneumatic variety. :)
>
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tyre
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tyre
>
> My own Collins English Dictionary and fourth edition of the Pocket Oxford
> from 1934 make no disctinctions between tyre and tire.
>
> Make of that what you will.

Basically, I make of that, that the US version of most stuff is more true
to English than the English.
This is at variance with what we are taught locally, but almost every time
someone who really knows their stuff checks into the Yankee version of
stuff, we get to find out that their variation is more historically
correct.
Something to do with a parting of the ways around the time J Cook and
others were sent out into the world looking for mast timbers for ships as a
substitute for what had been used for a while from North America:-)
You guessed it - the variation is a reaction, or more likely an effect
where the Yankees became determined to be different.

--
Toby.
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