5jj. Thanks for coming back.
I want to learn, not argue.
I did considerable research this morning, but I find that almost no one has concerned himself with writing literature in dialect.
Didn't Rudyard Kipling do some of this? -- and without being condescending?
Actually, what really set me off, back in the day when I wrote "The Folk Makes No Apology" was the apostrophe required to write "makin' hay". Here, any farmer who would say "making hay" \meykyng hey\ would sound like no farmer at all, but rather like someone from the city who was trying to understand (good for him). But there was no missing letter! And, so, why had I to write an apostrophe?
One of the things that I remembered this morning is that my subject, really, is spelling reform. And that subject has a long history. There is good essay about it, though, on wikipedia.
Frank