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verbphonetize (third-person singular simple present phonetizes, present participle phonetizing, simple past and past participle phonetized)
present singular third person phonetizes · participle present phonetizing · participle past phonetized · past phonetized
- transitiveTo represent (something) by phonetic signs.
I find a goodly number of Yankeeisms in him, such as idee (not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling dew deow, which is just as one would spell it who wished to phonetize its sound in rural New England.
1876, James Russell Lowell, “Spenser”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, footnote *, page 195
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