Kurt Elling

It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect.

American Musician

G-Dragon

I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.

South Korean Musician

Sid Sriram

When it comes to 'Maruvaarthai,' I have said many a time that Carnatic music drives my creative influence. In that sense, Darbuka Siva gave me a lot of room to breathe with the melody. The instrumental, however, was grounded. The lyrics is just poetic, and phonetically, they sound beautiful.

Indian Musician

Marlon James

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

Jamaican Athlete

Regina Spektor

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

Russian Musician

Yvonne Strahovski

I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.

Australian Actress

Francisco Goldman

I had one of those farcical bar mitzvahs where they spell out the words phonetically on index cards, and you don't even know what you're saying.

American Novelist

Vanessa Paradis

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

French Musician

James William Middleton

I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.

English Businessman

Shannon Sharpe

I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

American Athlete

Focus on the sounds of letters as they are spoken, not how they’re written.

Sound Based

Some words have silent letters or unexpected pronunciations, unlike their phonetical sound.

Misleading Spelling

Phonetic spelling can vary between accents and dialects of English.

Spelling Variations

 Japanese tweets and the apps that they have an iPhone it's phonetic so we'd get somebody to translate phonetically and I would just write it out and then I would get them to check the characters that automatically pop up and then I put it all in there and I would tweet in Japanese I've tweeted in Welsh and I try

Tweeting in Pitjantjatjar...

 into parts to read fan, tas, tic. Time spent decoding makes it hard to keep up with peers and gain sufficient comprehension. Spelling words phonetically, like s-t-i-k for stick and f-r-e-n-s for friends

Phonetically