Product Description

The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation is the ideal source for finding out how to pronounce controversial or difficult words and names. Expert guidance is given on how to pronounce 15,000+ difficult words and names, using both the Intenational Phonetic Alphabet and simpler respelled pronunciations. There are notes on individual entries where pronunciation has changed or is disputed, or where there is simply further interesting information. Special panels look at topics such as changes in pronunciation over time or the influence of dialect, and give top tips for pronouncing languages such as Arabic, Chinese, or Spanish. The entries chosen reflect the news and themes of today, and include newly researched material from the BBC's database. The unique combination of the BBC's worldwide expertise in pronunciation with OUP's experience in reference publishing provides a popular and accessible guide to this tricky but fascinating area.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #210189 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

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It's widely available and very useful to anyone who wants to give the impression that they are educated. Catholic Herald Christmas Books

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It's widely available and very useful to anyone who wants to give the impression that they are educated. (Catholic Herald Christmas Books )

Customer Reviews

Does not supersede the BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names
This is a useful book in its own way, including lots of names and other words which even native speakers have problems with and giving acceptable English pronunciations of foreign names. However it only includes a fraction of the British names to be found in the old BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (which urgently needs to be reissued, preferably in updated edition). Also, for foreign names as a rule the authentic foreign pronunciations are not given.