Why Not There are several problems with trying to use ordinary English spelling conventions to suggest how a word is pronounced Firstly, doing so usually has offensive connotations. Writers seldom use misspelling for the speech of characters they are trying to get you to respect While the misspellings may help suggest that a character speaks "differently"(from whom? ) it usually also implies that the character is stupid or illiterate (This is especially obvious with misspellings like"sez that suggest a pronunciation which is almost certainly identical to pronunciation used by the writer.Why Not • There are several problems with trying to use ordinary English spelling conventions to suggest how a word is pronounced. Firstly, doing so usually has offensive connotations. Writers seldom use misspelling for the speech of characters they are trying to get you to respect. While the misspellings may help suggest that a character speaks "differently" (from whom?), it usually also implies that the character is stupid or illiterate. (This is especially obvious with misspellings like "sez" that suggest a pronunciation which is almost certainly identical to pronunciation used by the writer.)