li-te-ra-ture

li-TERRA-shure

on what planet pal

if you want to start a separatist movement hold a referendum

litter-chewer

I say liderachur and every other British person wonders what the fuck is wrong with me

i probably actually pronounce it something like li-truh-chuh

LIT-erature

i once met a guy who pronounced it *LITT*RACHEUR.

whatta pseud

lit

i probably actually pronounce it something like li-truh-chuh

― coign of wantage (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 May 2014 06:31 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like this but with the consonants sort of eliding into glottal stops

li'ri'chə

boks

ya godeny gud boks

lidderatúhr

books

http://images.vefblog.net/vefblog.net/s/o/sorel/photos_art/2009/08/sorel124913460926_art.jpg

books

No true Brit uses the 'd' sound. It's 't' or glottal stop or nothing. #patriotism

i once met a guy who pronounced it LITTRACHEUR.

I think this is how I say it?

Lit-rat-pure

A+

^ final scene in '120 days of sodom'

this thread immediately recalled this for me:

I was Nabokov’s student at Cornell in 1953-1954, at a time when most undergraduates did not know he was a writer. Drafted into the army a year later, I was sent overseas to France. On my first pass to Paris I naturally went browsing in a Left Bank bookstore. An array of Olympia Press books, daringly displayed above the counter, seemed most inviting—and there, between copies of Until She Screams and The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe, I found Lolita. […] [T]his title was new to me; and its context and format were more than surprising, even if in those innocent pre-Grove Press days the semi-literate wags on fraternity row had dubbed Naokov’s Literature 311-312 lecture course “Dirty Lit” because of such readings as Ulysses and Madame Bovary (the keenest campus wits invariably dropped the B when mentioning the latter). I brought Lolita back to my base, which was situated out in the woods. Passes were hard to get and new Olympia titles were always in demand in the barracks. The appearance of a new girl in town thus caused a minor clamor. “Hey, lemme read your dirty book, man!” insisted “Stockade Clyde” Carr, who had justly earned his sobriquet, and to whose request I acceded at once. “Read it aloud, Stockade,” someone called, and skipping the Foreword, Stockade Clyde began to make his remedial way through the opening paragraph. “ ‘Lo… lita, light… of my life, fire of my … loins. My sin, my soul … Lo-lee-ta: The… tip of the… tongue… taking… a trip…’—Damn!” yelled Stockade, throwing the book against the wall. “It’s God-damn Litachure!!” Thus the Instant Pornography Test, known in psychological-testing circles as the “IPT.” Although infallible, it has never to my knowledge been used in any court case.

Didn't make it all the way to the end:
http://www.forvo.com/word/literature/#en

"lit"

Light-ratcher

Lit-rat-pure

― 龜, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:34 (1 hour ago) Permalink

damn dude

I have to give credit where credit is due The Ratpure

no, i know! takes me back.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poll backfired

no like this you clod underrated

great britain still clinging to its faded glories

what is it that bothers you most about the british pronunciation? The elision of the 2nd syllable? The pronunciation of "t" as "t"? Or whatever the difference between "chur" & "cheur" is?

you are welcome to your island customs

i once met a guy who

^ the root of the problem, that american guy

maybe don't start your poll just as we're getting up if you wanna influence the outcome :-)

cmon you guys do everything else like us now what's this one little thing