Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A pronunciation
spelling of a word is a spelling different from the standard spelling,
used to emphasize a particular pronunciation of the word. The spelling
uses the regular spelling rules of the language. Most are nonce
coinages, but some have become standardised, e.g. gonna to represent the
pronunciation of going to, as in I'm gonna catch you. Pronunciation
spellings may be used informally to indicate the pronunciation of
foreign words or those whose spelling is irregular or not sufficient to
deduce the pronunciation. This is called respelling. Pronunciation
spellings are frequently used in narratives to represent nonstandard
dialects or idiolects, often to create an impression of backwardness or
illiteracy. This is called literary dialect, or often called eye
dialect, though originally the latter term was applied only where the
resulting pronunciation is the same as the standard one, e.g. "Pleese,
mistur," said the beggar.
