The word 'lil' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to denote a shortened version of the word ‘little’, either for emphasis or as slang. For example, "I'm just a lil bit tired today."
As the dance's popularity spread across America in nightclubs and strip clubs, an increasing number of hip hop and R&B artists starting encouraging their audiences to twerk it, from the Ying Yang Twins (Whistle While You Twurk) and Lil Jon (Get Low) to Timbaland (in Justin Timberlake's Sexyback) and Beyonce (Check On It).
They're apparently influenced by Lil Wayne and Laurie Anderson, and if their next single sounds like O Superman meets 6 Foot 7 Foot we will be delighted.
The band was working on the album in a Canadian studio when a car bomb exploded in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, last October and in a rush of emotion quickly revised the lyrics of one song, "Lil Watan (For the nation)".
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It was tossed around on social-media channels, printed on T-shirts, acquitsd its own Twitter hashtag, #Chiraq, and was taken up by other rappers such as Tavares Taylor (Lil Reese), who rapped in "Traffic": "Where I'm from?
He's famous for hollering "What!" "Yeah!" and "O-Kayyyyy!" in the backing tracks to the songs he's involved with, but he also raps on his own.Mark Liberman's link to this YouTube [note: about a million swear-words, as there will be in the rest of this post] of Lil Jon's track "What You Gonna Do" got me thinking, of all things, the progressive grammaticalisation of the word shit.
Here's the first bit transliterated from modern standard written Arabic, ie, the text above:Fii yowm min al-ayaam kaana Joha wa ibnuhu yahzimuun amta'atahum isti'daadan lil-safar ila al-madiina al mujaawira fa rakibaa 'ala dhahri likay yabda'u rihlatahum.
Although the original name of the group is Jamāʿat Ahl al-Sunna lil-Daʿawah wa al-Jihād (often translated as "Association of the People of the Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad" or "Association Committed to the Spread of Islam Through Jihad"), the name Boko Haram, which means "Westernization is sacrilege," was given to the group by neighbours based on how they viewed its lifestyle and teachings.
Darwish authored several books of prose including the memoirs Yawmiyyāt al-ḥuzn al-ʿādī (1973; Journal of an Ordinary Grief) and Dhākirah lil-nisyān (1987; Memory for Forgetfulness)—and more than 20 collections of poetry.
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Arabic Aṣ-ṣandūq Al-ʿarabī Lil-istithmār Wa At-tanmīyah Al-ijtimāʿiyah, Arab League fund designed to promote economic and social development of Arab countries.
Islāmic Development Bank, Arabic Al-bank Al-islāmī Lil-istithmār, Muslim bank directed toward financing the economic and social development of members in accordance with the principles of the Sharīʿah (Islāmic sacred law).
