How Not to do it Fiction writers will often try to give the impression that a speaker is using a different accent by deliberately misspelling some randomly chosen words Pets thim animals may be, an' domestic they be, but pigs I'm blame sure they do be, an me rules says plain as the nose on yer face Pigs franklin to Westcote thirty cints each. An misther Morehouse by me arithmetical knowledge two time thurty comes to sixty cints Ellis Parker Butler, "Pigs is pigs"Pears lak she should pay some tention to her fifth husban or leastwise her foth, but she don. I don' understan wimmin. Seem lak ev'body settin fire to somethin ev'time I turn my back. Wonder any buildin's standin in the whole gahdam United States James Thurber Bateman comes homeHow Not to Do it • Fiction writers will often try to give the impression that a speaker is using a different accent by deliberately misspelling some randomly chosen words. – Pets thim animals may be, an' domestic they be, but pigs I'm blame sure they do be, an' me rules says plain as the nose on yer face, 'Pigs Franklin to Westcote, thirty cints each.' An' Misther Morehouse, by me arithmetical knowledge two time thurty comes to sixty cints. – Ellis Parker Butler, "Pigs is pigs" 'Pears lak she should pay some 'tention to her fifth husban', or leastwise her fo'th, but she don'. I don' understan' wimmin. Seem lak ev'body settin' fire to somethin' ev'time I turn my back. Wonder any buildin's standin' in the whole gahdam United States. James Thurber, "Bateman comes home