PSDS
Language Log 2014-03-30
Summary:
Linguists are generally scornful of "eye dialect", in both of the common meanings of that term: As an "unusual spelling intended to represent dialectal or colloquial idiosyncrasies of speech", like roight for right or yahd for yard; As a "the use of non-standard spellings such as enuff for enough or wuz for was, to indicate that the speaker is uneducated". The first kind […]