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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spelling that is supposed to represent a pronunciation more closely than a traditional spelling, as lite for light, or wanna for want to.
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madmouth commented on the word pronunciation spelling
an old friend, on Chaucer - he spelt how he felt
October 29, 2015