Authors, which would you use and in what contexts?
SOL isn't much help - both variants occur in 1000 stories ;-)
AJ
Authors, which would you use and in what contexts?
SOL isn't much help - both variants occur in 1000 stories ;-)
AJ
Well, "girlie" CAN be used as an adjective, while "girly" is ONLY used as an adjective.
Also, if you capitalize "Girlie", it becomes a title, like "Oh, Mom is home!" instead of "Oh, my mom is home!".
Ngram says "girlie" is used more, but "girly" is closging the gap. "Girlie" is older.
In a story I'm working on, I noticed I'd used both spellings and couldn't say why. I'm still not sure :-(
AJ
I'm editing a story I recently wrote and came upon one occurrence of "girly" and two occurrences of "girlie" so far. Depending on the sentence, one sounded better than the other so I have both versions in the same story.