I'll
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction of I will.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /aɪ̯l/, /ɑːl/
- (unstressed form) IPA(key): /əl/, /ʌl/
- Rhymes: -aɪl
- Rhymes: -aɪəl
- Homophones: aisle, isle
- Homophones: all, awl
Contraction
[edit]I'll
- I will.
- I shall.
- 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part V. What the Thunder Said.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 49, lines 430–431:
- These fragments I have shored against my ruins / Why then Ile fit you.