I'm having trouble with "ING" - not prehistorically as in INGlish Invaders, nor science-fictionally as in alien ING, nor even horror-filmically as in the thING, but as a Norfolk Dialect word-ending.

At this point I shall hold my ears and/or duck as people groan in sudden boredom or chuck a metaphorical custard-pie (which is why I always wear a hat when blogging). However, if anybody has survived the anticlimax and is still reading, I should like to ask their advice.

Norfolk is a dialect which is virtually impossible to write down with any accuracy, however imaginative you make the spelling, which is where my problem arises. Do I stick most closely with the "rules of riting" and just apostrophise the ending ( endin') or do I try to get it phonetically correct? The actual sound, soft and fading, is somewhere between " en " and " un " which is why some Norfolk writers avoid the problem with " 'n ".

So far, in The Mardlingham Saga I have tried to retain grammatical rules where possible, but this seems to pepper the page with apostrophies, and it makes me feel guilty if I leave them out. :(