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

[BellaBearisWideAwake]

DS1 wrote SMUTIS on a shopping list. And TMUTOS.

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

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.

Eggsarmpull.

From dd when she was in reception.

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

My favourite one was dd;

'Jagn'

=

Dragon!

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

It read:-

Get Wel Soon Anty

Die

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.

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

She was writing about chreez yesterday though.

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

Love skwobl

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Yoonikorn

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.

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

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

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!'