I genuinely find it distracting and awkward to read. It trips up the eye and breaks the flow of what you’re saying; it’s like watching a period drama and seeing a pocket calculator in the background, your brain goes “wait, what?” for a moment.
It might just be me, I don’t know. I don’t have the same problem with regionalisms generally, ‘owt’ and ‘wee’ and suchlike, perhaps because they’re words in their own right rather than regular words spelt differently for no discernible reason?
I quite like that as an explanation. 😀
Words are only spelt as they are cos someone wrote them down like that once. And then other people agreed that maybe a particular word should be spelt like that. And how many words are actually diffrunt to their original spelling?
Take the word ‘home’, frinstance. Now Sottish folk will know that this word can be pronounced ‘hyem’. Many actually do. That’s because it’s originally a Norse word, hjem, what’s bin corrupted over time to become ‘home’. Lots of things were probbly spelt diffrunt to dissacociate them from the culture from whence they came. Certainly, a lot of English words were ‘Frenchified’ by ponces wanting to look all posh an ting. And some poncy types still use French words to try to appear posh, dun’t they? 😉
Language is a marvellous, organic, living thing. Embrace it, don’t be frightened of it…