Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States.

My captor, a man of few words, had responded to my questions, demands and acerbic remarks alike with the all-purpose Scottish noise which can best be rendered phonetically as 'Mmmphm'.

His name is phonetically rendered as KayahsotaÃ, and the many spelling variations included Kiasutha, Kiasola, and Kiashuta.

- Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities This last is phonetically rendered street vocabulary.

His name in the Seneca language is phonetically rendered as Kaieñãkwaahtoñ, and was spelled in a variety of ways, including Gayahgwaahdoh and Kayenquaraghton.

Thus yel-hay (airplane) in the previous example would be rendered phonetically as /'jel(e)'haj/, as the consonant l must be succeeded by a vowel or semivowel.

It is also rendered phonetically in a band across the circle.

Most of the surnames scrolling before her, phonetically rendered, were unfamiliar.

There is another decision about language, however, that readers will have to judge for themselves: the use of phonetically rendered dialect.