• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        A tire can be scuffed just like a rim can be scuffed just like a wheel can be scuffed.

        They are all equally valid to be scuffed.

        And Tyre is old English, go back to your island. ;)

        • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          7 hours ago

          I’m not saying it can’t be scuffed, I’m saying that personally I wouldn’t use it in that way because like you say I’m from an island that spells tyre with a y :p

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        15 hours ago

        Could be, but that’s a very strange choice of language by the author. You scuff a tyre, you scratch or gouge a rim typically.

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          13 hours ago

          I mean I disagree. A gouge would be a big chuck taken out, a scratch would be a more surface level line where as a scuff would be a patch of surface level damage. I doubt I would ever use scuff in terms of a tyre either.

          That is the wonders of language though, everyone uses it differently :D

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            7 hours ago

            Language is wonderful when you know how to use it. Rims are rims, tires are tires and both together are wheels.

            I’ll give you scuffs; you certainly understand what a scuff is though.

            Easy easy, lemon squeezy.

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              7 hours ago

              I mean if you want to be pedantic then;

              Wheel: “a circular object connected at the centre to a bar, used for making vehicles or parts of machines move”

              So a rim or alloy can and is a wheel with or without a tyre ;)