What is the short form for little ? Is it lil or lil? Ngram shows li'l beating out lil' and li'l' since before 1900 (Note that you must press "Search lots of books" after clicking on the link ) And since Lil is a very popular name (both as a first name and as a hyphenated portion of an apparently Arabic name), any Ngram results for that variant must be ignored But as @sumelic points out, the Ngram results are highly suspect, due to the
How do I abbreviate little correctly? - English Language Usage . . . You'll need to complete a few actions and gain 15 reputation points before being able to upvote Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful What's reputation and how do I get it? Instead, you can save this post to reference later
How to say I dont believe you in a more academic way? (A) this is a vague, Miss Manners -type question, (B) Lill has NOT supplied any more info despite a tremendous amount of input and many asking for clarification