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Found this online but the page was not the easiest to link to so...
Etymologists have suggested two possible derivations of the word “tire/tyre.”
One comes from the original function of the tire as the metal hoop or band of iron
that “tied” or bound the wheel together. In this usage, referring to wagon wheels
and the like, tire has consistently been spelled with an “i” on both sides of the
Atlantic.
The other possible origin of the word and the one which has the greater
etymological support is the word “attire,” from which the short first syllable was
dropped over time.
In this sense, the tire is the attire or dressing of the wheel. As etymologist Webb
Garrison explained in his book, “What’s in a Word?”
“For centuries, any type of dress or equipment was commonly known
as attire. Careless pronunciation clipped off the first syllable so that it
became customary to speak of both useful and ornamental coverings as
’tire. This name applied to a multitude of objects from a woman’s frock
to the curved iron plates used to ‘dress up’ wheels of carts and wagons.”
Two of the most authoritative dictionaries of the English language, “Webster’s
Third New International” in the United States and “The Oxford English Dictionary”
in Britain, agree with Garrison.
The Oxford dictionary, the British standard, says tyre is a variant spelling of tire
(implying that tire is the more etymologically correct spelling). Regarding the
spelling, the dictionary’s entry under “Tire” says:
“From 15th to 17th c. spelt tire and tyre indifferently. Before 1700 tyre
became generally obsolete, and tire remained the regular form, as it still does
in America; but in Great Britain tyre has been revived as the popular term for
the rubber rim of bicycle, tricycle, carriage, or motor car wheels, and is
sometimes used for the steel tires of locomotive wheels.”
In 1956, Philip Schidrowitz, writing in the “European Rubber Journal,” argued for
the British spelling of tyre, by pointing out that the official spelling in the various
classified publications of the British patent office has consistently been with a “y.”
Nevertheless, he also noted that the patent for the first pneumatic tire, that of
R.W. Thomson in 1845, used the spelling “tire.” However, Schidrowitz
contended that Thomson used the word as applying only to the rim of the wheel,
referring to his own invention as an “elastic belt” or “elastic bearing.”
The British evidently resurrected the archaic spelling −tyre− to distinguish
between the modern pneumatic tire, made of rubber, and its iron predecessor,
used on wagon wheels.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: tire
I know you're now officially Hungarian, but does that mean you have to use "American English" spellings everywhere?
Here in the civilized world, the word is "tyre". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: I know you're now officially Hungarian, but does that mean you have to use "American English" spellings everywhere?
Here in the civilized world, the word is "tyre".
Thank you. I was to say the same, but with lots of faarrrkkkks thrown in.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: but with lots of faarrrkkkks thrown in.
We would expect nothing less from you MM. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I'm Thai'd of this whole conversation.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are you never tyred with correcting spelling errors ?
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Technically, it's a word-choice error. "Tire" is a valid English word, just not the correct word in that context. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Here in the civilized world, the word is "tyre"
It is but there's no obvious justification for it. It's from the same root as 'attire' which I've never seen spelt 'attyre', have you?
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Originally the spellings tire and tyre were interchangeable, but in the 17th century tire became the settled spelling, which has remained the spelling in the USA. In Britain the development of the pneumatic tyre seemed to require some differentiation from the metal rim, and tyre was revived.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I apologise unreservedly. My spilling is bad and sometimes the spill chicken lets through Mercan words by mistake.
veni bibi saltavi
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Right. Now don't do it again[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hey! As I an "American" I take offense to your characterization of us. We are perfectly civilized savages!
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As I an
You just proved his point there, mate.
And I'm tired about all this arguing about the correct spelling of tyre.
Yes, I'm American and I use some British terms in place of their American versions. Confuses the hell out of some people!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Coincidentally Pssssssttt is also the sound people make when they see you dressed for dinner.
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Klingon developers don't need spare tyres. They open vi and suddenly the tyre fixes itself.
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Punctured tyres don't suck, they blow...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: All this happens, of course, when I am very nicely dressed and on my way out to dinner.
That is the Law of Murphy, I believe.
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There are three things (well, not just) I'm checking when I'm buying a car.
- That it has a real spare
- That I can change the bulbs myself without major disassembly
- That it's not French or an Opel/Vauxhall
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Better than the sound of eeeeaaaaawwwweeeeeesssscccrrrrr - which is probably the sound my car made when some git put three 60cm lines of green paint on it and dented the wheel arch when they tried to park next to my 8 week old white car at the weekend.
There is a bounty out on them - although as yet they have not been identified...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Same thing for me over a week ago. The tire had a huge hole in it. Had to get towed. Took over 3 hours. If I'd had a real spare, 10 minutes.
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Ha! No, sadly far more mundane.
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Yeah, those sealants don't do much good when you run over a piece of angle iron, and it slices your tire in half.
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For now it's in my (still secret, yet to be unveiled) take over the over the world project, so I won't talk about it too much! But I need brag to people who can understand what I talk about!
For my secret world take over the world project I created an ....
unbounded multi-threaded spatial index!
Quite proud with myself.
Best thing..... It's working!  
TBH it's just some kind of spatial grid (not that innovative) but I added the unbounded and multi-threaded bits! (that's the innovative parts!)
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But can you access parallel worlds, or other dimensions using it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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