Through the 20th century, with the decline of spoken Scots and knowledge of the literary tradition, phonetic (often humorous) representations became more common.

(Note that the words cited below in the Syntax section come from Milne (1921), so their phonetic representations may need revision.)

Sarus primarily uses the phonetic or abbreviated representation of the tonal syllables.

The Latin letter names are phonetic representations of the Cyrillic originals and variations are inevitable.

Texts are full of heteronyms, numbers, and abbreviations that all require expansion into a phonetic representation.

He named his company "U-Line," a phonetic representation of his German-origin name.

The signifier is the physical or phonetic representation of a sign.

This message is encoded in the form of a phonetic representation..

The result is a phonetic representation only suitable for dictionaries.

The name is a phonetic representation of 'Brand New Day'.