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There's a new show on Comedy Central, Lil' Bush. It's a satirical cartoon about our current President and his staff. I haven't seen it (though the word I've heard isn't good).

What fascinates me is the title. As I'm sure readers know, an apostrophe is used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters.

Thus, "little" is generally shortened to "li'l" as in Li'l Abner (speaking of satire).

Lately, however, I've been seeing the erroneous "l'il" quite a bit. There's no missing letter between the L and I.

But Lil' Bush? The apostrophe is completely unmoored from its purpose. Unless they want to claim his name is Lili Bush.