SPELLING! IS CORRECT ALWAYS NECESSARY? Depends on the
character!
‘On my holidays my mother sent me to stay with Auntie Beral. I
didn’t know Auntie Beral very well. She was skinny and tall and had spectackles
that keeped on rolling down her nose and she keeped pushing them back up her nose
with her thumb. Her eyes looked like they were on a escanlater.
On the first day
we played Snap and I won all the games.
On the second day
we had pikelets and treacle and cheese for lunch and I was sick on her carpet
square and she showed me how to wash up the sick.
On the third day
we went out to see her friend Eva Cramps and I had to call her Auntie Eva Cramps
and we had scrambled egges for lunch and they were so runny they ran all over
the table cloth.
On the last day
we went shopping and Auntie Beral let me stay outside with Buskabill from Buffalohill.
He played all the nursery rhymes on his geetar and I singed every one of them
and so did he but he singed different words than me. We made lots and lots of
money and when Auntie Beral came out of the Supermarket I wasn’t there because we
were in the Ice Cream Parlar next door and eating ice cream sundees with
chocolate sauce and jelly beans on top and then she did find us and she was
mad. I think it was becos she didn’t get any ice cream sundees and she was
jellus. Next holidays Mum says I can go to the moon!’ © Jean’s younger alter
ego
This is Jean ‘Angel’ Allen hoping you are enjoying today’s
character.
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Gud spellin' ain't allays necessary, Jean! Depends on the karickters. In my book "The Indigo Kid" I use not mis-spellng as such but mispronunciation for one or two of the characters. Like the mis-spelled words in your charming piece, they give pointers to the personality of the protagonists. For example, Charlie, in "The Indigo Kid" uses the word 'deckle-dubber' buses, a term my youngest daughter 'invented'! So, mis-spell away, dear writer!
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