allthingslinguistic:

ruleoneandrun:

dracofidus:

princeofdoomrps:

ghostcries:

also guys i think it’s time to start spelling ‘small’ right again,, it’s been long enough

see the thing is, at this point, smol isn’t even a “mispelling” of small anymore; it has its own connotations. while small is a regular adjective, smol acts more like a diminutive marker, which English has been lacking

in essence, a smol dog will always be a small dog, but not all small dogs are smol.

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING

Small = size indication, smol = precious and small

I just want to point out that similar things have happened before. “Cute” is originally a variation on “acute”, and now people don’t even think of them as related.