Spelling and accents....

I'm a person with a reasonably heavy accent and I don't think it's made the slightest difference to me. When I visualise a word, I think about it with the following priority:

1, What it means
2, How it is spelled
3, How it sounds

Because I get to the spelling of it before I get to the sound of it, my accent doesn't make any difference to my spelling.

I do notice some phonetic spelling here, though, like cridical and poddery. I probably notice them more because that's not how I'd say them phonetically myself.

I am British and I don't drop H's. Actually I don't think anyone I know does either.

What the fuck ru talkin aboot?

americans can't spell wtf is color its colour

I speak a very pure form of the English language (little or no accent) and I never have any spelling difficulty.

There are obviously some words in the English language that are spelled differently to how they're written, but those you just have to remember.

My spelling may be influenced by local slang, but I won't use that outside of text messages.

So you may not be understanding the way other areas spell things but it is not a idication they are wrong. On the other hand it may be they are doing it for the affect and thats a reasonable argument.

I will say right now this may or may not be correct. I know for a fact that brits spell some words diffrently then some American words. It may seem odd to some but that also gos to pronouciation as they say it diffrent aswell. So this may or may not be true in every case. However if you are speaking of something like this "What up Dawg"! Also yes I know people who spell it like that to stress how it sounds. I do get what you are saying in that piont. Since "Dawg" is not a real word and "Dog" is the correct spelling. Another example is "Baby fader" It needs to be spelled baby "Father". So I can see why you might find that annoying.

My accent doesn't affect my spelling at all, although some things can be a problem. Mainly phrases and slang, etc., which I'm not sure everyone has heard of. If I wrote like I spoke then I really don't think anyone would understand me, and my accent isn't even that heavy compared to some Geordies! Well actually, Spacey might understand me, but that's it:P.

For me it's harder because i'v been brought up with slag as the norm. So I never actually learned the way words are actually pronounced or anything. So I hade terrible grammar and spelling. As you can see from this paragraph.

Never had a problem with this although I used to text dialectually. I would say "yer" and not put the g at the end of certain words "drivin', walkin'".

But other than that, no, I don't have an issue.

What do you mean people in Boston drop R's?

Well as children we would often apply the phonetic method to try to spell out words we don't know.

Luckily the basic vocabulary of the English language is to an extent is phonetic and would apply to most English accents. By the time we get older and increase vocabulary we are at a point where we learn to adapt to exceptions in English.

In my accent - our vowels are quite flat and non rhotic.

Well they aren't errors but I type a lot like I talk. Combining some small words and droppin the g on ing words. Ya know. I also use 'ya' as you and yeah.