Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary by J.C. Wells
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0582364671 | 2nd Edition | Scan PDF | 400 pages | 126 Mb
Alphabet Reference
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0582364671 | 2nd Edition | Scan PDF | 400 pages | 126 Mb
Alphabet Reference
The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative pronunciation dictionary available.
This expanded and completely updated new edition includes:
• 135,000 pronunciations, giving full coverage of both British and American English using the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association
• over 200 graphs showing pronunciation preferences of British and American speakers, and how these are changing, for words like controversy, either, harass, and garage -based on Professor Wells’s unique Pronunciation Preference Poll over the Internet
• recommended pronunciations clearly shown in blue for each word, as well as other pronunciations in common use
• stress patterns for thousands of compounds and idioms
• more than 50 Spelling-to-sound hoxes and 35 language Panels
• thousands of proper names
• pronunciation in the language of origin, as well as English, for words and names from foreign languages