Talk:Two-liter bottle

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[edit] So the invented uses section...

Pretty much makes ma' life

[edit] Spelling

I think this article should be named "Two-litre bottle", it's a French unit, so we should use the French spelling. Plus, it hurts my eyes trying to read "liter" and it feels really weird to try to pronounce it, when I see "liter" instead of of the more correct "litre", I almost instinctively say it as "lighter." Stuart Morrow 17:59, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd question the validity of the article even existing. I've got 1.25 litre, two litre, and three litre bottles in my fridge now, there's 750 ml, 600 ml et al.. nothing special about any of them.

On the other hand, this article primarily refers to the two liter bottle in US culture. US spelling for US terms. Calwatch 11:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

The correctness of a current spelling shouldn't have anything to do with what country or language the original word comes from. (And, in fact, the "original" was the Latin litra, or, wait, was it Greek? Mycenaean? Phoenician?.... You get the point: there is no original.) This is particularly true in WP. (See WP:MOS. What counts is which of the contemporary spellings was used in the first substantial version of the article. In this case, it was liter, so that's what we should stick with. --PeterH2 19:18, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

In the late 1970's the two-liter bottle was a novelty in grocery stores. I know because in 1979 I was a 15 year old kid whose job it was to stack the glass returnables in wooden crates. When did the two-liter bottle first dominate shelves in the USA?

[edit] Dimensions

I've been searching the web for half an hour trying to find the diameter of a two liter bottle, with no luck. Then I thought "Wikipedia has an article on every silly thing!" and so I came here, found the article, but it doesn't list the dimenstions of the bottle. I guess I've no choice but to go buy one and measure it. -- 24.209.110.27 (talk) 11:28, 2 February 2008 (UTC)