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Littler vs Littles - What's the difference?

littler | littles |

As a proper noun littler

is .

As a noun littles is

small amounts.

littler

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (little)
  • Usage notes

    Some authorities regard both littler' and '''more little as non-standard. The OED says of the word ''little'': "''the adjective has no recognized mode of comparison. The difficulty is commonly evaded by resort to a synonym (as smaller, smallest); some writers have ventured to employ the unrecognized forms littler, littlest, which are otherwise confined to dialect or imitations of childish or illiterate speech. "

    littles

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • Small amounts.
  • * 1891 , Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles