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Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (Other Dictionaries)
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Product Description
Based on Professor Wells’ Pronunciation Preference Internet Poll, this authoritative reference shows over 135,000 different pronunciations from British and American English, including technical vocabulary and proper names.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #70398 in Books
- Published on: 2000-03-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 896 pages
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About the Author
John Wells is a Professor of Phonetics at University College London. His interests centre on the phonetic and phonological description of languages but also extend to lexicography and language teaching. He directs UCL’s annual Summer Course in English Phonetics. He is a frequent contributor to BBC radion (R2, R4, R5, BBC English). Based in Britain at UCL throughout his career, he has over the years given invited lectures in many different countries throughout the world. His best known publications are Accents of English (3 vols, Cambridge University Press 1982) and Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (Pearson Education, second edition 2000).
Customer Reviews
Useful tool for native speakers, exceptional for foreigners.
LPD2 is the best tool for teachers, lecturers, and everybody who needs to prepare speeches mainly about themes of the new informatized age, where many new words born and are old where old words are being reused in new contexts with new meanings.
