Hey David (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) Lodge:
RE:
>Hello,
And while we're all busy bashing each other, could you good
people on this side of the pond please say coup (that's coop-ay
NOT coop!) When you realise that the first pronunciation means
cut, as in chopped, and the second means cup........... need I
say more? I mean, whoever heard of a car resembling a cup?
Regards to all, David (who-has-been-known-to-cheer-
out-loud-when-Christiane-Annanpour-takes-that-young-
lady-to-task-on-CNN-for-the-way-she-pronounces-Iraq- and-Iran)
Lodgegreen47tc@yahoo.com>
To:
mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [mg-tabc] tyres tire
Date: 8.2.2005 - 20:23:14
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> I did not mean to upset anyone by using "tire". I
> aggree that as a
> group we spend a lot of time trying to get the details
> correct
> (although I must confess there is an occaisional week
> when I do not
> polish the headlight reflectors}. It is true that
> Americans have
> borrowed many words from our brothers over the water,
> such as
> chauffer, chassis, coupe, cab(from cabriolet), etc; but
> we should
> try to get it right. According to the Oxford English
> Dictionary
> "TYRE- A variant spelling of TIRE, both being used
> indifferently in
> the 15th and 16th C. In the 17th C TIRE became the
> setteled
> spelling, and has so continued in the US; in Gt Britain
> TYRE has
> been revived for the pneumatic tires of bicycles,
> carriages, and
> motorcars."
> Since Tyre was most associated with originality I agree
> we should
> use this form. My apologies to all.
> I sure hope we we never discuss the
> carburateur/carurettor/carburetor
> gene olson
> driving on the wrong side of the road
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