Editing Eye dialect (section)

==Examples in English==
===Prose fiction===
Some authors who use eye dialect include [[Maya Angelou]], [[Charles Dickens]],<ref name="Levenston 1992 56">{{Harvcoltxt|Levenston|1992|p=56}}</ref> [[William Faulkner]], [[Greer Gilman]], [[Alex Haley]], [[Joel Chandler Harris]], [[Russell Hoban]], [[H. P. Lovecraft]], [[Terry Pratchett]], [[James Whitcomb Riley]], [[J. K. Rowling]], [[Robert Ruark]],<ref name="Malin 1965 230">{{Harvcoltxt|Malin|1965|p=230}}</ref> [[John Steinbeck]], [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]], [[Mark Twain]], [[Maxine Beneba Clarke]], [[Paul Howard (writer)|Paul Howard]],<ref>{{Cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eZTWCgAAQBAJ|title=The Undecidable: Jacques Derrida and Paul Howard|first=Clare|last=Gorman|date=June 1, 2015| publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443883597|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Finley Peter Dunne]],<ref>{{cite journal
 |last1=Thogmartin
 |first1=Clyde
 |date=Spring 1982
 |title=Mr. Dooley's Brogue: The Literary Dialect of Finley Peter Dunne
 |journal=Visible Language
 |volume=16
 |issue=2
 |pages=184
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 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/3146ab83fbdf388501040766fb07ab97/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1821103
 |access-date=June 7, 2021
}}</ref> and [[Irvine Welsh]]. 

Charles Dickens combined eye dialect with pronunciation spelling and nonstandard grammar in the speech of his uneducated characters. An example in ''[[Bleak House]]'' is the following dialogue spoken by Jo, the miserable boy who sweeps a path across a street:

{{quote|...there wos other genlmen come down Tom-all-Alone's a-prayin, but they all mostly sed as the t'other wuns prayed wrong, and all mostly sounded as to be a-talking to theirselves, or a-passing blame on the t'others, and not a-talkin to us.}}

In the above, ''wos, sed,'' and ''wuns'' indicate standard pronunciations.<ref name="Levenston 1992 56"/>

In his [[Discworld]] series of books, Terry Pratchett makes extensive use of eye dialect to extend the caricature of his characters, besides other visual devices such as changing the font used for certain dialogue. [[Death (Discworld)|Death]], for example, speaks in [[small capitals]], while the dialogue of a [[golem]], who can communicate only by writing, resembles [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew script]] in reference to the origins of the golem legend. Eye dialect is also used to establish a medieval setting, wherein many characters' grasp of spelling is heavily based on phonetics.{{citation needed|date=January 2022|reason=Find a reference that argues how use of fonts is a kind of eye dialect instead of just an alternative literal device}}

===Poetry===
In his 1937 poem "The Arrest of [[Oscar Wilde]] at the Cadogan Hotel", [[John Betjeman]] deploys eye dialect on a handful of words for satirical effect; in this case the folly of the arresting police officers, who are made to seem like comic caricatures of themselves:

<blockquote>
Mr. Woilde, we 'ave come for tew take yew<br />
Where felons and criminals dwell:<br />
We must ask yew tew leave with us quoietly<br />
For this ''is'' the Cadogan Hotel.
</blockquote>

An extreme example of a poem written entirely in (visually barely decipherable) eye dialect is "YgUDuh" by [[E. E. Cummings]], which, as several commentators have noted, makes sense only when read aloud.<ref>Reef, Catherine (2006) ''E.E. Cummings'', New York: Clarion Books, {{ISBN|9780618568499}}, p. 104</ref> In this case, Cummings's target was the attitudes of certain Americans to Japanese people following [[World War II]].

===In comics===
American [[cartoonist]] [[Al Capp]] frequently combined eye dialect with pronunciation spelling in his [[comic strip]] ''[[Li'l Abner]]''.  Examples include ''l{{not a typo|issen, aristocratick, mountin}}'' [mountain], ''{{not a typo|correkt, feends, hed, introduckshun, leppard}},'' and perhaps the most common, ''{{not a typo|enuff}}''.  Only his rustic characters are given these spellings; for instance, the "overcivilized" Bounder J. Roundheels's dialogue contains ''gourmets'', while Li'l Abner's contains ''{{not a typo|goormays}}''.<ref name="Malin 1965 230"/>

Cartoonist [[Walt Kelly]] made extensive use of eye dialect in ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]''. Like Pratchett, he used unique fonts for many of his supporting characters.{{citation needed|date=January 2022|reason=Find a reference that argues how use of fonts is a kind of eye dialect instead of just an alternative literal device}}

Some cartoonists and comic book creators eschew phonetic eye dialects in favor of font changes or distinctive [[speech balloons]]. ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', for example, has traditionally been depicted using "crusty" yellow speech balloons and dialogue heavily laced with ellipses, suggesting a gravelly voice that only speaks with great effort. Robotic and computer characters often use square speech balloons and angular fonts reminiscent of [[OCR-A]], suggesting a stilted, emotionless cadence. [[Thor (comics)|Thor]]'s dialogue has routinely been written in an elegant font, implying his archaic vocabulary and pronunciation as a millennia-old god. After Thor passed the mantle to [[Jane Foster]], her dialogue was written in the same font whenever she transformed into Thor, before reverting to normal when she did as well.

===Other uses===
American film director [[Quentin Tarantino]] used eye dialect for the title of his movie ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''.