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is a regular phonetic respelling of a word that has a standard spelling but whose pronunciation according to that spelling may be ambiguous, which is used to indicate the pronunciation of that word. Pronunciation respellings are sometimes seen in word dictionaries.
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Pronunciation spellings may be used informally to indicate the pronunciation of foreign words or those whose spelling is irregular or insufficient for the reader to deduce the pronunciation. In such cases,
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Unlike the IPA, respelling systems are often specific to the works in which they appear. The English-language Knowledge (XXG), for example, has its own respelling system (available at
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Bowdre, Paul H., Jr. (1971). "Eye dialect as a literary device". In J. V. Williamson & V. M. Burke (Eds.),
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Pronunciation spellings as deliberate misspellings may be used for humorous effect. The origin of the word
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Ives, Sumner. (1971). "A theory of literary dialect". In J. V. Williamson & V. M. Burke (eds.),
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though some have achieved a certain amount of standardization, e.g., the informal use of the word
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Preston, Dennis R. (1982). "Ritin' fowklower daun 'rong: Folklorists' failures in phonology".
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Fine, Elizabeth. (1983). "In defense of literary dialect: A response to Dennis R. Preston".
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Preston, Dennis R. (1985). "The Li'l Abner syndrome: Written representations of speech".
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However, respelling relies on the writer's encoded mapping to the same
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Pronunciation spellings are sometimes used in narratives to represent
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spelling of a word that has no standard spelling. Most of these are
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Preston, Dennis R. (1983). "Mowr bayud spellin': A reply to Fine".
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This offers a sometimes intuitive alternative to systems like the
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is disputed, but the most common view is that it derives from "
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Krapp, George P. (1926). "The psychology of dialect writing".
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Ives, Sumner. (1950). "A theory of literary dialect".
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Respelling
Spelling pronunciation
Phonetic spelling
ad hoc
nonce words
gonna
typeface
punctuation
letter case
stress
syllabication
International Phonetic Alphabet
phonemes
Föhn
non-rhotic
Help:Pronunciation respelling key
nonstandard dialects
idiolects
illiteracy
eye dialect
okay
Oll Korrect
branding
Lite
Froot Loops
sensational spelling
Pronunciation respelling for English
Heterography
Vivian Cook's page of common eye dialect
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