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Book The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English

Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English written by Clive Upton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English. Based on research by a joint UK and US team of linguistics experts, this is a unique survey of how English is really spoken in the twenty-first century. This second edition has been fully revised to include: a full reappraisal of the pronunciation models for modern British and American English; 2,000 new entries, including new words from the last decade, encyclopedic terms and proper names; separate IPA transcriptions for British and American English for over 100,000 words; information on grammatical variants including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and verb tenses. The most comprehensive dictionary of its type available, The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the essential reference for those interested in English pronunciation.

Book Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English written by Clive Upton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by a team of linguistics experts, this is a comprehensive pronunciation dictionary which gives phonetic transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet for the rendering of words and proper names in both British and American English.

Book Dictionary of Pronunciation

Download or read book Dictionary of Pronunciation written by Samuel Noory and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Pronouncing Dictionary

Download or read book English Pronouncing Dictionary written by Daniel Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daniel Jones' classic pronouncing dictionary is the ultimate guide to pronunciation in English. Now in its 17th edition, it includes thousands of pronunciations not shown in general dictionaries, from people to places, to words from science, technology and literature." "Features: fully updated with the latest new words, including people and places in the news; lively study pages give extra help with common areas of difficulty; contains all the general and encyclopaedic words needed to communicate in the modern world - with over 80,000 entries and 220,000 pronunciations; and offers additional support with spelling and understanding phonetic terminology - 200 information panels explain phonetics terms and the relationship between spelling and sound."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Oxford English Dictionary

Download or read book Oxford English Dictionary written by John A. Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

Book Pronunciation Dictionary of Artists Names

Download or read book Pronunciation Dictionary of Artists Names written by Debra Edelstein and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Download or read book Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names written by John K. Bollard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely compiled with the aid of computer speech-synthesis technology, this dictionary contains 23,000 entries, including frequently occurring or difficult-to-pronounce names of places worldwide that are currently in the news. Also covered are other important places, celebrities, political and historical figures, company and product names, biblical names, and literary references. Pronunciations appear both in a simplified respelling and in the phonetic symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Entries include concise definitions that identify each proper name. For users from the casual to the scholarly. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation written by David Crystal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed using IPA, and the accompanying website hosts sound files as a further aid to pronunciation. It also includes the main sources of evidence in the texts, notably all spelling variants (along with a frequency count for each variant) and all rhymes (including those occurring elsewhere in the canon, such as the Sonnets and long poems). An extensive introduction provides a full account of the aims, evidence, history, and current use of OP in relation to Shakespeare productions, as well as indicating the wider use of OP in relation to other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, composers from the period, the King James Bible, and those involved in reconstructing heritage centres. It will be an invaluable resource for producers, directors, actors, and others wishing to mount a Shakespeare production or present Shakespeare's poetry in original pronunciation, as well as for students and academics in the fields of literary criticism and Shakespeare studies more generally.

Book Longman Pronunciation Dictionary

Download or read book Longman Pronunciation Dictionary written by John C. Wells and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An English Pronouncing Dictionary

Download or read book An English Pronouncing Dictionary written by Daniel Jones and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ABC Pronunciary

Download or read book ABC Pronunciary written by and published by Vocalis Ltd.. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American English Pronunciation Dictionary. Vowels, consonants, digraphs, blends, and silent letters are presented clearly. There are 51 sounds detailed: each contains a full description of the mouth formation and more. Includes bonus cassette and booklet

Book A Dictionary of American English Pronunciation

Download or read book A Dictionary of American English Pronunciation written by Harold V. Cordry and published by Austin & Winfield Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American pronunciation dictionary that is thoroughly and completely inclusive and multicultural. Called by one reviewer '...a model of concision, yet easy to use.'

Book Cambridge Advanced Learner s Dictionary

Download or read book Cambridge Advanced Learner s Dictionary written by Kate Woodford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.