I've got a project that needs the abbreviated form of "Little". Can anyone definitively tell me the correct way it should appear......'Lil, Lil', Li'l, L'il or ......
Happy Signing....Marty
------------------ Marty Happy Signmaker Since 1974 Happy Ad Sign & Design Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4
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Marty, I may be wrong too....but as far as I know, you can spell slang anyway you want...if there was a proper way to spell it, it wouldn't be slang, would it? haha
------------------ Don Coplen aka "SaintPete" Coplen Designs St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com
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Marty..Don is probably correct...but if I were doing it I would use "Li'L" since it is sort of a contraction like "Don't".
------------------ Dave Grundy AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley
If Al Capp is an authority on the subject, the answer is Li'l, as in Li'l Abner.
But, I think Lil' is the more contemporary form. Seaching "Li'l" on the web seems to return a bunch of links with Lil' this and that. Almost no Al Cappian varieties.
The best answer is probably what looks best from a typography standpoint.
Reg'ds, Li'l Jimbo
------------------ Jim Doggett Vice President Summa, Inc.
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My vote goes for Li'l. I believe the apostrophe usually goes where the "real" letters are being left out or slurred. Putting it at the end would replace the e which is silent anyway, so that doesn't seem to make sense.
Not that I know for sure...but at least I have an explanation for my answer .
------------------ Diane Crowther, Metaline Graphics Ltd., Nova Scotia, Canada, ID #285
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