Litre Edit Meaning

1.

A unit of liquid measurement that the French are trying trying to make the standard worldwide, part of the metric system.

A litre of water, a 5.3 litre engine

2.

Mexican sounding slang for liter.

da me un litre por favor amigo. neccesito el fuego por este mota sabrosa.

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3.

The painfully Britishspelling of liter. A liter is a fewounces shy of a quart.

In fact, it's downright bashful, because when it was first put into use, it was only a marketing ploy to allow manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to sell a smaller amount of product for the same price! The only reason we still buy things by the liter, so many years later, is because there's no way that greedy businesses are going to go back to giving us a full quart of product when we pay for one.

Even if you spell LitreBritishly, you still pronounce the E before the R, but you exaggerate the sharpness of the T, just in case anyone might have mistaken you for American. Besides, it makes people laugh, and that's a good thing, right?

Who knows why you capitalize the L!?!

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