wonderfool

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʌn.də(ɹ).ful̩/, /ˈvʌn.də(ɹ).ful̩/

wonderfool (comparative more wonderfool, superlative most wonderfool)

1. Pronunciation spelling of wonderful, representing non-native English.
   • 1839, Charles Mathews, Memoires, page 260

     “ […] It's quite wonderfool hoo the deevil he gets through it all.” (Whispering in his ear) “I am surprised too; but I did it all myself.”

   • 1867, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round Volume 18, page 536

     Fresh, ardent, yet woise, oh so woise, he tell me 'ou to manage my lands, an oder wonderfool tings!

   • 1992, Tristan Jones, Adrift, page 257:

     Then one French-American sous-chef, still in his white kitchen gear, climbed down from the cockpit, where he had been inspecting the cabin, peering inside, murmuring, "wonderfool–wonderfool, ze workmansheep!"

   • 1998, James Howard Kunstler, Home from nowhere: remaking our everyday world for the twenty-first Century, page 179:

     Whenever approached by some unctuous bell captain as to my reason for occupying a chair for such a long time, I would reply in an all-purpose "foreign" accent (part Bela Lugosi, part Charlie Chan) "Merry Chreestmas. America it is a wonderfool country," and then they generally left me alone.

   • 2009, Sue Limb, Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England, page 195:

     Marie-Louise emerged from the girls' tent, wrapped in a fleece. She sat down by Jess. "It is wonderfool now zat Jodie is feelingue bettair," she said.

   • 2012, Chloe Rayban, Mwah-Mwah, Bloomsbury Publishing →ISBN, page 126

     'Come and swim,' he said to me. 'Ze water eez wonderfool.'