You guys spell it tyre with a Y? Huh. I thought maybe it was meboom speak, but I see @ryivhnn spelling it that way too...why would someone change a letter in that word? It literally sounds the exact same, we've got lots of other words where Y sounds like I... I'm flummoxed I tell you!
As for changing tires,err tyres, I once changed one in a snowstorm. That is a true story! It was actually me and a girlfriend, we were deadset on getting to a party and we managed it! Of course my spare wasn't flat 😅
Holy shit, do you guys spell it without the y? With an I? That mad. In a funny way. If my spare wasn't flat I am sure I would have been ok. Maybe, lol!
I would do the same if it was to get to a party, you cant miss a party!!
You would have had it, I have faith in you!! 😁
Regional spelling?
It's always been a homophone here. I do like different spellings in same sounds because it makes reading a lot quicker (I can just recognise word shape in the stupid way in which I read and don't get slowed down having to check context).
I think y making vowel sounds is why it's "sometimes" a vowel ^_^;
We also spell recognize with a Z, but that one I was aware of 😆
Yup, I mean we have the words eye and rye and fly, so why (lol) change it to an I in tire I wonder... probably only the US, just like our distance and temp measurements ha.
One of them is a centuries long spelling mistake? XD (I had a super quick look online and there's constant disagreements to which one is closer to the original spelling as it was apparently originally either "attire" or "attyre" and I didn't look any further than that, most of the entirety of English drifted).