<entry id="2225890" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2499420</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>タイヤチェーン</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>タイヤ・チェーン</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>snow chains</gloss>
<gloss>tire chains</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2009-07-17 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-02-15 04:30:11" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>"snow chains" seems to be the much more common word in English
1.1m vs 25k (b)</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -7,0 +7,3 @@
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;タイヤ・チェーン&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
@@ -9,1 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;tire chain&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;tire chains&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;snow chains&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-02-15 05:46:05" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-18 05:26:48" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +12 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;tire chains&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;tyre chains&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-18 08:15:24" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Sigh. May as well have both the AmE and BrE spellings.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>English N-gram Counts
tyre chains 1320
tire chains 55288
snow chains 63760</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12,2 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;snow chains&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;tire chains&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -13 +14,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;snow chains&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-20 22:35:55" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I've only ever heard "snow chains" in the UK. The low n-grams for "tyre chains" suggest it doesn't have much currency in BrE. I don't think it's needed.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -14 +13,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;tyre chains&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-20 22:45:21" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>OK. It's "snow chains" here too.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>