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Why is it that on a site where it seems like everyone is constantly correcting everyone else's grammar, it is perfectly acceptable for so many people to spell TIRES with a Y instead (tyres). I am one of the people who feels like we should all communicate exactly as we were taught and agree with the websites stance on this subject so it's just baffling to me that it is considered proper English here.

Could someone please explain this to me and maybe why people even spell it like that to begin with.
 
It's UK (and possibly ex-commonwealth) English. You know, where the language originated from before you guys decided to "reform" it :sly: :p
 
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Why is it that on a site where it seems like everyone is constantly correcting everyone else's grammar, it is perfectly acceptable for so many people to spell TIRES with a Y instead (tyres). I am one of the people who feels like we should all communicate exactly as we were taught and agree with the websites stance on this subject so it's just baffling to me that it is considered proper English here.

Could someone please explain this to me and maybe why people even spell it like that to begin with.
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I'm sure a bunch of Europeans are about to rip you for this, but yes that's how they spell it across the pond.
 
Well now I know. I've never been to England and really had no way of knowing. It's just been driving me crazy and I needed to know why. I thought it was something along the lines of using ur to say your. My bad.
 
Gizmo517
Why is it that on a site where it seems like everyone is constantly correcting everyone else's grammar, it is perfectly acceptable for so many people to spell TIRES with a Y instead (tyres).
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Fail! :lol: I was educated in the States (for the most part) but isn't in common knowledge that the English spell tires with a "y" instead of an "i"? And you know, they did sort of invent the language. As a result, most other commonwealth countries spell it the same way. Who's to say which is correct?
 
The same goes for "color [Am.]" and "colour [Br.]", before you run into that, too. :)
 
Maybe you should let google assist you before making threads like this.

It's "Tyres" in Australia also.
 
Aluminium??? Really??? Wouldn't that change the sound of the word? Just like aluminum and plutonium don't rhyme?
 
I guess it's Aluminium is almost every language except American English. Apparently the word was too hard to pronounce....
At least in Dutch Aluminium, Plutonium, Calcium and Kalium do rhyme.
 
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lol you found the question mark then! Because it missing a lot from your first post since where on the subject of good English... This is futile anyway!
 
Yes Americans actually say the word Aluminium as Aluminum too. I guess it's right for them, but is of course wrong for English.
Well the history is this:
"Discovered: H.C. Oersted in 1825
Name: From alum, used by ancient Greeks and Romans as an astringent and as a mordant in
dyeing. Sir Humphrey Davy proposed the name aluminum, but changed it to aluminium
to have it conform to the spelling of other metals. This spelling was used in the U.S.
until 1925 when the ACS when back to the original spelling. The rest of the world uses
the “-ium” ending."

Wikipedia says the facts are different to that though with much more detail so i don't what is right now. And i wont bother pasting all that in.

The internet is full of rubbish. I just checked a random science information site and look what it says. Spot the stupid mistakes from www.facts-about.org.uk/
"Brief Facts about the Discovery and History of the Element Aluminum
Aluminum was discovered by Hans Christian Oersted in 1825. Isolated by Friedrich Wohler in 1827. Charles Martin Hall received a patent in 1886. Davy had proposed the name Aluminium for this metal in 1807 before it had been Isolated, but later agreed to change it to Aluminum to conform with the "ium" ending of most other named elements. Aluminium remained an acceptable alternative spelling to Aluminum until 1925 when the American Chemical Society chose to spell the metal's name Alumunum in all their new publications."
 
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Yes, it does change the promounciation of ALUMINIUM. It's how the whole world says it apart from the good old U.S. of A., who apparently are unable to string together such complexities as ALUMINIUM and and so have to resort saying ALUMINUM LMAO
 
Wow how quickly this thread turned into another American bash fest. All Americans are lazy, stupid, and talk funny. We get it. Just don't insult any other country (even unintentionally) or this thread will be locked!
 
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Wow how quickly this thread turned into another American bash fest. All Americans are lazy, stupid, and talk funny. We get it. Just don't insult any other country (even unintentionally) or this thread will be locked!
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No offense, but other countries don't make these kind of threads :crazy:
 
To be honest, it's not about being lazy or stupid, we're just having a little joke at the expense of americans. In reality, the language used by America is becoming further and further removed from 'English' and, in my opinion, will soon be different enough to be defined as it's own language, much like French and Swiss-French differ substantially. It's not about laziness, it's just a demonstration of how evolution changes everything, including language :)
 
Aluminium is an odd case. Its name was derived from [wikipedia]alum[/wikipedia], whence it may be isolated, and was originally alumium. That proved too odd-sounding, so it was variably changed to aluminium and aluminum in speech, and eventually "officially". Both are perversions in a sense, though one might argue that aluminum is more "irregular."
 
In Canada it's spelled "Tires", and frankly wherever you're from and however you spell it shouldn't matter. That's just how you learned to spell it.
 
To all of the people who responded with helpful answers explaining things about the language differences, THANK YOU!

To everyone else who had to comment with smart*** remarks, if you don't have anything nice to say, SHUT UP!

It's ridiculous how every single thread has to turn to an argument or a bashing. Some people are just stupid, I guess that's the same no matter what country you are from.
 
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