: Re: Technical term for written dialogue that mimics the speaker's "sound"? I'm wondering if there's a technical writing term for when an author uses purposefully misspelled words to mimic the sound

Eye dialect

You might also consider this technique to be a form of eye dialect where the author intentionally misspells words to reveal something about the character.

Some more information about the term eye dialect:

Merriam Webster
Grammarly
Wikipedia
Thought Co.

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