: Re: How to write a character misinterpreting Four Candles as Fork Handles English is full of homophones that can cause confusion when speaking, but if the two similar sounding words are spelled differently

@Heady158

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In the particular instance, for the joke to work Ronnie C had to be speaking in a certain accent for Ronnie B to misunderstand him, because 'four candles' and 'fork handles' are not generally homophonic. So you have to make sure the 'h' is dropped and that the accent doesn't differentiate the 'fou' and 'for' as Ronnie c's native accent would.
So for this instance you would have to devise a way of writing the words phonetically which also disguised the spelling.
IPA is probably the way to go, but I'm not versed in it so am falling back on some random googling to suggest that if: Fork Handle is 'fɔːk ˈhand(ə)l'
and Four candles is 'fɔːˈkand(ə)l' then perhaps you can run them together to something like 'fɔːkˈand(ə)l'

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