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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Lol, right. I happen to know a thing or two concerning the English language because of what I do for a living.
Provide your references -- and anonymous Wikipedia articles mean nothing when it comes to something authoritative -- or just stop trying to argue on the internet for the sake of arguing. Something that is said colloquially does not mean it is correct. Ain't isn't a word, either.
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I'm not sure I have ever seen 'tire' used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa by native speakers (or spellers, as the case may be). I've long felt I'm the only one who spells it that way here.
Even now, the Oxford dictionary in my hand says:
tire
n. (Amer.) a tyre.