'e'll

      See also ell

      English

      Etymology

      A representation of the pronunciation of he’ll by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition (IPA: [h]).

      Contraction

      ’e’ll

      1. Eye dialect spelling of he’ll.
        • 1998, David Griffiths, Please Be Gentle: A Conjectural Evaluation of the Masked Performance of the Comedia Dell’Arte, p. 78:
          I know it’s cos ’es new when we’ve got ’im trained ’e’ll be as good as gold like me know ’is place jump when ’es asked no ’olding ’im like a frog ’e’ll be jump jump jump...
      Last modified on 12 November 2012, at 23:44