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based on the ‘units of sound mainly at phoneme level’ of the English language and the graphemes which are code for the sounds. This Pronunciation Guide, in contrast, is based on some spelling patterns shown in the left column and provides examples of different pronunciation.
The OED gives pronunciations for English as spoken in Britain and the United States throughout the revised text. For words associated with other parts of the English-speaking world, OED also gives pronunciations in the appropriate World English.
Guide to Pronunciation. Pronunciation is not an intrinsic component of the dic-tionary. For some languages, such as Spanish, Swahili, and Finnish, the correspondence between orthography and pronunciation is so close that a dictionary need only spell a word correctly to indicate its pronunciation.
1.1 Why do we need pronunciation dictionaries? vi 1.2 Can I use the dictionary if I don’t know anything about phonetics? vi 1.3 What is the online dictionary for? vi
Pronunciation Guide. This guide will help you to understand and use the pronunciation symbols found in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English.
1.1 What is the English Pronouncing Dictionary? 1.2 Whose pronunciation is represented? 1.3 How are the pronunciations chosen? 1.4 Regional accents. 1.5 Pronunciation of foreign words. 1.6 Usage notes. 1.7 Syllable divisions. Part 2: Principles of transcription. 2.1 The phoneme principle. 2.2 Vowels and diphthongs. 2.3 Consonants.
printing to make the words easier to find, and with a special clear way of showing idioms and phrasal verbs. We have also included an ‘Idiom Finder’ at the back of the dictionary so that you can find idioms even if you don’t know which part of the dictionary to look in. ‘Helpful’ would also be part of the character.
