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[darwin dali]

I thought it was supposed to be 2.0 liter V6 turbo?!?!

I don't recall 2.0 liter engines...

The engines are not going to be made of rubbish!

They are going to be 1.6 litre turbos.

Rubbish would be litter

It would still be pronounced litter albeit spelt wrong.

If you colonials are going to speak English, you'd be as well spell things in English. It's litre!

Problem is, that's the French spelling, so your British English is quite foufou

The French spelling that is also the English spelling from which the American version would be derived from so the American spelling is wrong!

Nope, it's pronounced leeter not litter.
And if you want to go French on me, then FFS pronounce litre correctly, i.e., littr like the French and as it is spelled. You pronounce it English, but spell it French. Americans are at least consistent and spell it as it is pronounced, i.e., liter, the Germanic way, which what btw. English is, a Germanic language with lots of Latin (from the French/Norman occupation) thrown in.

[andrew]

How would you know how I might pronounce it?

[darwin dali]

How would you know how I might pronounce it?

Well, you speak British English and are making fun of us 'colonials', so I'm rather sure how you pronounce it plus it was a generalized 'you' as in you Brits and I know for sure how it is pronounced in your neck of the woods.

[andrew]

Well it's pronounced and spelt litre not liter in these parts - there is no emphasis on the er at the end. In fact you could loose the e at the end and it would sound the way it's spelt. See what I mean here?

[darwin dali]

Well it's pronounced and spelt litre not liter in these parts - there is no emphasis on the er at the end. In fact you could loose the e at the end and it would sound the way it's spelt. See what I mean here?

British: /ˈliːtə(r)/
US: [li:tər]
French would be [li:trə]

Do you see the connection? British is very close to US pronunciation and should be spelled that way, i.e., liter (whether or not you pronounce the r, the first sound after the t is an e or ə). The French correctly pronounce the r after the t because it's also spelled that way in their language.

[andrew]

I see your point. Now hang a hat on it!

Oh the daftness and limits of the English language.

[bud]

I see your point. Now hang a hat on it!

Oh the daftness and limits of the English language.

It's probably the best language for expressing oneself, Because of its daft ness concerning its original germanic rules it is limitless.

[Kyros]

Litre comes from latin and makes perfect sence in pronunciation


Liter could be mispronounced as 'Lighter' (Li - Ter) or 'litter' (Lit - er)