Re: USAGE: subway

Tristan scripsit:

> What does the ability to fly have to with being a bird? Having feathers
> and wings and a beak, yes, but too many birds can't fly to consider
> flying a features of birdiness.
Okay, pick your own example of prototype-based definitions.  "Game" is an
old standby: what properties do all games, and only games, have in common?

> So in other words the worst features of both :) (Even if 'tire' is the
> original spelling.) And is the 'normal' spelling of 'tyre' <tire>? Or is
> it just that people don't care and so you get that kind of a thing?
No, it's standard Canadian spelling.

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