Editing Tire (section)

==Etymology and spelling==
The word ''tire'' is a short form of ''attire'', from the idea that a wheel with a tire is a dressed wheel.<ref>{{OEtymD|tire|access-date=2024-01-18}}</ref><ref name="oed"/>

''Tyre'' is the oldest spelling,<ref>{{OEtymD|tyre|access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> and both ''tyre'' and ''tire'' were used during the 15th and 16th centuries. During the 17th and 18th centuries, ''tire'' became more common in print. The spelling ''tyre'' did not reappear until the 1840s when the English began shrink-fitting railway car wheels with malleable iron. Nevertheless, many publishers continued using ''tire''. ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper in London was still using ''tire'' as late as 1905.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Guide to English Usage |last=Peters |first=Pam |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-62181-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto00pete_0/page/553 553] | url= https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto00pete_0/page/553 }}</ref> The spelling ''tyre'' began to be commonly used in the 19th century for pneumatic tires in the UK. The [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|1911 edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'']] states that ''"The spelling 'tyre' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US"'',<ref name="eb">{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Tire |volume=26 | pages=1006&ndash;1009; see page 1007 |quote=...The spelling " tyre " is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in America...}}</ref> while [[A Dictionary of Modern English Usage|Fowler's ''Modern English Usage'']] of 1926 describes that "there is nothing to be said for 'tyre', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own [sc. British] older & the present American usage".<ref name="fowler">{{cite book |last=Fowler |first=H.W. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Vr7muDFR6j4C&q=tire+%22there+is+nothing+to+be+said+for+tyre%22&pg=PA655 |title=A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-953534-7 |editor=David Crystal |page=655 |access-date=2024-01-18}}</ref> However, over the 20th century, ''tyre'' became established as the standard British spelling.<ref name="oed">"tire, n.2." OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2016. Web. 26 January 2017.</ref>