Hyphens and mental health

To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2019

1. Liddle is a word. (But does Donald Trump know that?) From the Oxford English Dictionary:

In regional pronunciation, or representing the speech of non-English-speakers or children; = LITTLE adj.

The first citation (1906) is from Rudyard Kipling: “Come along o’ me while I lock up my liddle hen-house.” A later citation, from Arthur Kober (1945):

You wanna be a crook, be awready a big fella! . . . But a liddle fella, where he got the chutzpah to be a crook?

Mistah Trump, he’s a big fella.

2. Liddle’ is not a word. Perhaps the president is thinking of lil’, as in Lil’ Kim or li’l, as in Li’l Trumpy.

3. An apostrophe or accent is not a hyphen. Liddle’ reminds me of what people used to do trying to create an accented letter on a typewriter: cafe′.

4. Discribing is not an accepted variant.

5. “I spelled the word liddle wrong”: well, he did. But words used as words take italics or quotation marks: liddle, or “liddle.” See nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 above.

6. Low ratings and never ending need hyphens. You — not CNN — left hyphens out, you dolt.

7. The president is not well.

[I suspect that the missing “hyphen” will be found with the missing strawberries.]