to think the word is 'Little'

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Two syllables, hard consonant sound in the middle?

Of course it is!

How have you been hearing it pronounced?

The 'lil boy', 'lil girl' brigade are growing. They are even on here now.

Is it supposed to be cute? It looks utterly illiterate and twee to boot.

Disclaimer: I am knackered and grumpy (but I'm pretty sure it would be annoying me hugely even if I weren't)

Written down Dr0p

Yanbu fb is awful for this "Look at r gawjus lil man"

PS I'm in the grumpy knackered club myself

Blegh. Hate it.

Along with:

R Gawjus lil man
Lil Man
Sexy baby

Yes.
Another word is 'and' not 'an'. And 'have' not 'av'.

PS I'm in the grumpy knackered club myself

Hmm, that is most irksome.

I remember back in the 90's that daft man, Chris Evans, tried to get everyone to say "little" as "ikle" or something like that. It's never really gone away.

Yeah what's that 'an' thing? It saves one letter and who can't spell 'and'!?

Gawjus I'm almost immune to now. Tragically

lil is here ?

Ye Gods

Oh god yes I remember 'ickle'. Bleurgh.

"lito" has been used a few times recently on FB.

My lito lady.
My lito man.

I wrote l'il on Facebooksomething this morning.

Oh yes Its. HERE.

Shockers! [shock ers]

Why, why, why 'an' instead of 'and' ?

It's ONE LETTER, and it's probably one of the first words you learnt to spell FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!

Lito???

I'm lucky to have mainly scottish people on my FB. It's full of wee bairns not lil men

Ok this one really annoys me but it sounds very anti-American so I'm not totally comfortable banging on about it but I swear to god it's true.

Ok, here it is…I like Americans by the way…sometimes Americans (usually young), when writing, can't tell the difference between than and then . They're used interchangeably.

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I wrote l'il on Facebooksomething this morning.

Shouldn't that be Li'l ?

My sister in law uses 'wiv' or 'wid' and 'de' in texts and on FB. Drives me insane.

My neighbour sent me a friend request which I foolishly accepted. I now get a constant stream of posts about her cute lil baby girls. They are 4 and 6. She uses 'hun' alot too. 'You Ok Hun? PM me Hun X'. Grrrrr.

I'm pretty sure that's not just the Americans Dr0pThePirate you may be off the hook.

Also not knowing the difference between women and woman, e.g. 'this women just bagsied a table in Starbuck's'

sometimes Americans (usually young), when writing, can't tell the difference between than and then shock blush. They're used interchangeably.

Oh I haven't seen that

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I haven't seen 'lito' either. This thread is giving me more things to potentially get grumpy about

I do like wee bairns, though

Nope... No defending that.

isnt it just dialect?
speaking in a way which aligns you with a certain social group.

The fact that you shudder and cringe when you read it surely just tells you that these are not people with whom you can comfortably align yourself?