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   On 2026-02-12 8:51 p.m., danny burstein wrote:   
   > In <10mlvbn$1tk5q$1@dont-email.me> Rhino    
   writes:   
   >   
   >>> It hasn't gotten general coverage in what's left of the Fourth estate   
   >>> in the Colonies, but since I've been enchanted by my A Number One   
   >>> Unobtainable Canadian Heart Throb I've been following stories   
   >>> from the home of Canadian Tire (sic) and bumped into this.   
   >   
   >> You don't need the "sic", Canadian Tire is the name by which everyone   
   >> knows them.   
   >   
   > yabbut, it *should* be TYRE!   
   >   
   >   
   It may well have been at some point. I think we were originally more   
   British in our terminology than we are now. For instance, I was looking   
   at an article on the Toronto Police before we got independence in 1867   
   and they were getting paid in shillings, not dollars. And I still   
   remember when we used miles and gallons instead of meters and liters; we   
   only started going metric in 1979 and some of us still think and speak   
   of imperial units rather than metric ones.   
      
   The founders of Canadian Tire were the Billies Brothers and the company   
   was founded just after WWI. I wouldn't be shocked if they initially   
   called it Canadian Tyre. Did you know that most of the Canadians who   
   fought in WWI had actually been born in the UK?   
      
   For what it's worth, we still spell a lot of words the way the British   
   do, such as colour and plough, but not gaol or tyre. When it comes to   
   car parts, we mostly use the American term but not always. For instance,   
   we never use boot or bonnet, preferring trunk and hood, but we sometimes   
   use the British term of generator rather than the American term of   
   alternator.   
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
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