Effect On Spelling
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Spellings based on non-rhotic pronunciation of dialectal or foreign words can result in mispronunciations if read by rhotic speakers. In addition to juggernaut mentioned above, the following are found:
- "Er", to indicate a filled pause, as a British spelling of what Americans would render "uh".
- The Korean family name 박 (Bak/Pak) usually written "Park" in English.
- The game Parcheesi.
- British English slang words:
- "char" for "cha" from the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 茶 (= "tea" (the drink))
- "nark" (= "informer") from Romany "nāk" (= "nose").
- In Rudyard Kipling's books:
- "dorg" instead of "dawg" for a drawled pronunciation of "dog".
- Hindu god name Kama misspelled as "Karma" (which refers to a concept in several Asian religions, not a god).
- Hindustani कागज़ "kāgaz" (= "paper") spelled as "kargaz".
- "Burma" and "Myanmar" for Burmese and .
- Transliteration of Cantonese words and names, such as char siu (叉燒, Jyutping: caa1 siu1) and Wong Kar-wai (王家衛, Jyutping: Wong4 Gaa1wai6)
- The spelling of "schoolmarm" for "school ma'am".
Read more about this topic: Rhotic And Non-rhotic Accents
Famous quotes containing the words effect on, effect and/or spelling:
“Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“We drove the Indians out of the land,
But a dire revenge those Redmen planned,
For they fastened a name to every nook,
And every boy with a spelling book
Will have to toil till his hair turns gray
Before he can spell them the proper way.”
—Eva March Tappan (1854–1930)