what's the loveliest phonetic spelling of a word you've seen?

[BellaBearisWideAwake]

DS1 wrote SMUTIS on a shopping list. And TMUTOS.

[tinytalker]

"I wnt to v ulimpix and sor runing"
:)

[Limelight]

When I was about 6 I wrote 'buffla' in a story. This is one of my DM and DF's favourite stories because it took them a little while to work out.

So take into account: (1) a broad Teesside accent which meant missing Ts; and (2) slightly dodgy hearing which meant that ends of words got missed. Also squint your eyes a little bit...

And then you get 'butterfly'!

My DM is slightly thrilled that my 2yo DD says 'bufflafly'.

Oh and my hearing got sorted the following year - adenoids out.

[Jinsei]

Eggsarmpull.

From dd when she was in reception.

[YoniBottsBumgina]

It's not a child's one, but I've always loved the Welsh ambuwlans.

Love how you can hear all the accents in these too :o

[LilyBolero]

My favourite one was dd;

'Jagn'








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Dragon!

[deleted203]

DS1 wrote a Get Well card to his Auntie Di many years ago now.

It read:-

Get Wel Soon Anty

Die

[CouthyMow]

A corker from (now 15yo) DD -

mumee tuk mi too de pak and wudot let mi have an iyskreem i shated at hur but shee wudot lissen den I criyd an mumee tuk me howm an i didut wanoo liv sow i holdid ontoo de climin fraym den mumee got cros an sed i cudot hav anee sweeteez wen we gotid howm i sed i woz soree an mumee gayv mi a cudowl i luf miy mumee.



This was from her Y2 writing book I found in the cupboard - she was behind because of her LD's.

[oinkment]

All my little notes used to begin "Dey Mume". Now they say "Dear Mummy".

She was writing about chreez yesterday though.

[FaintlyMacabre]

DS1 (5) labelled a picture of two children fighting 'skwobl'.

[MrsShrek3]

Love skwobl

[Bonkerz]

My dd wrote in a thank you card to her daddy 'you are Hanson' for ages after I couldn't resist singing mmmmmbop at him

[BiscuitMillionaire]

My DD wrote 'fack yoo' on our big whiteboard. I was a bit so I asked her what she meant - it was 'thank you'.

[FaintlyMacabre]

These are all lovely. I love the way they have the confidence to have a go at writing words that officially they haven't learnt the correct spelling for. Makes their writing so expressive.

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

From DS3 when he was 5: "I hope my cat has 8 citterns. 4 boy citterns and 4 girl citterns".

Fortunately this hasn't come to pass, or we'd be asking the vet for a refund on the operation she had done.

[BooksandaCuppa]

I love figuring out the accents too!

I don't have many examples from ds (now 12). He was such a good and early reader and a really comparatively late writer (and autistic which I believe is relevant to his auditory processing) that he didn't much use phonics to write - more variations of correct spellings.

He wrote 'sausag', 'daer', 'adveture' and 'lihgt' - things like that in maybe year 1. How things sounded never helped him, only how he knew they looked.

[seeker]

My ds wrote Happy Birfday Efan in a card once.

We live in Kent. That's why I counsel against names with "th" in them!

[AThingInYourLife]

Love this thread. :)

"DS1 (5) labelled a picture of two children fighting 'skwobl'."

That is really clever. Cute and a bit funny, but really well worked out.

My most recent example is Roamin for Roman which is a bit boring compared to penis for pennies :o.

But it reminded me of those houses called Dun Roamin people retire to.

DD1 is 5 and really getting into writing in her own, so looking forward to more of these.

[OwlMother]

Yoonikorn

[olibeansmummy]

Last year one of my year 2 children wrote a story about a 'rober' who climbed through a window and stole all the 'penis'. Unfortunately it wasn't a very good story and every other word seemed to be 'penis' lol.

[AaDB]

I've had this note after ds 6 was a bit naughty this morning: 'Der Mrs Mum, form your spesul boy'. With a drawing of tears and a sunflower.
He has a different accent from the city we live in and I wondered how his teachers cope. We can read these no bother and helped me out with squidgy

[Barbarashop]

My nephew once wrote out his Christmas list:
Inyaner dyoons figer
Pakit of hairy boos
We particularly loved the second one!

[marriednotdead]

When DS was about 5, he regularly drew maps. One referenced places he knew of through home life. It had a route that included Jamayka and finished at Saarfend. When I pointed out that it was SOUTHend, his response was 'well that's how DSM says it!'