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That is a good question, and I think it comes down to the fact that languages, have different dialects, and these tend to be area specific, and not just dialects, in different parts of the country, words will have different meanings too, and then there is the question of accents, so if you want to put across in writing, how the word is pronounced in your local dialect, and how it sounds in your own accent, you can do that by altering the spelling, and for example, if you go towards Chorley, and from say Adlington onwards there is a pronounced 'R' in the sound of the local accent, and especially in Northeast Lancashire, the R's literally roll off the tongues of local people, so if someone from Chorley, is telling people that they come from Chorley, they will pronounce it has ChoRRRley, they will emphasise the R in Chorley.

In Wigan, each area has its own accent, so all I can say is that when I am saying the word you, I put more of an who in it, and the only way I can put that across in writing, is using oo rather than repeating a letter, it is just the way I speak, and when I was younger and at college I was much better spoken that I am now, I would have not dreamed of emphasising an who, think of the ad for Typhoo Tea, in which they say they put the whoo in Typhoo