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styley | 10:34 Sat 01st Sep 2007 | Arts & Literature

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Is there a term for when you write a word out phonetically (spelling?) to imply the way you may pronounce a word even though you know it isn't the correct pronunciation. Would it be a phoneticism? Like if I said bascetti instead of spagetti because I sometimes say that when talking.

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Yes.

The word is onomatopoeia.

I may have spelt that wrong though!!

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No, I don't think it is onomatapeia. That is when you try to explain a word through its sound I think. Like saying woof to describe a dogs bark.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dic t=CALD&key=55510&ph=on

Possibly. Don't know then.

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