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The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917.[1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent. The dictionary is now in its 18th edition. John C. Wells has written of it "EPD has set the standard against which other dictionaries must inevitably be judged".[2]

At the time of the publication of the 16th edition, a CD-ROM disk (compatible with Windows but not with Apple computers) was produced which contains the full contents of the dictionary together with a recording of each headword, in British and American pronunciation. The recorded pronunciations can be played by clicking on a loudspeaker icon. A "sound search" facility is included to enable users to search for a particular phoneme or sequence of phonemes. Most of the recordings were made by actors or editorial staff. The recordings were completely revised for the 18th edition.

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In English. A specialized pronunciation dictionary. Gives pronunciations in British and American English, in IPA. A wide selection of proper names. Pronunciation in the language of origin for a selection of words and names from foreign languages.

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In English. A general dictionary of Australian English. Gives pronunciation in Australian English, in IPA. With a wide selection of Australian proper names. Subscription required. Free 30-day trial available.

In Korean. A general dictionary of Korean. Meant to be a prescriptive dictionary of Standard Korean produced by The National Institute of the Korean Language, the regulator of the language in South Korea. Gives pronunciation respelling in square brackets ([ ]) when the pronunciation differs from the usual spelling. Pronunciations are not given for loanwords, dialectal words, archaic words, or Korean words used in North Korea. Gives a wide selection of proper names, including biographical names of notable historical individuals active up to around the 1970s.

In German. A specialized pronunciation dictionary. Gives pronunciations in IPA. Includes a wide selection of proper names. The pronunciation of foreign words and names in the original language are abundantly provided, in many cases to the exclusion of any Germanized pronunciations. Includes guidelines for the original-language pronunciations of 17 languages.

In German. A specialized pronunciation dictionary. Gives pronunciations in somewhat narrow IPA. Includes a wide selection of proper names. Unlike Duden, Words and names of foreign origin are always given Germanized pronunciations. Includes guidelines for the Germanized pronunciations of 19 languages.

In French. A specialized pronunciation dictionary. Gives pronunciations in IPA. Includes a wide selection of proper names, though it is often unreliable for foreign names and is somewhat dated in its tendency to apply rules of French pronunciation to foreign names. Out of print.

In Italian. A specialized pronunciation dictionary. Gives pronunciations in IPA, with information on traditional and current pronunciations as well as regional variations within the central Italian regions where Standard Italian is spoken natively. Includes a wide selection of proper names. Does not include Italians words and names whose pronunciations are obvious to Italian speakers.

In Danish. A general dictionary of the language. Gives pronunciations for each entry (except derived or compound words) in IPA. Audio pronunciations are also provided. Proper names are usually not included. Part of the interface is available in English under the name The Danish Dictionary at _en.

In English. A general dictionary of the language. First published in 2001 by Van Dale Lexicografie bv as Ster Woordenboek Engels-Nederlands/Nederlands-Engels. Gives pronunciation for each entry in IPA. Proper names other than names of prominent countries and regions are usually not included.

According to the help file, CEPD on CD-ROM "is the complete electronic version of this classic English pronunciation guide." Though the CD-ROM's User's Guide (p. 4) asserts that it "contains all the entries in the printed book and much more," it should be noted that the eighty-seven "information" panels and the twenty-six "Pronouncing the letter ..." panels that start each letter section in the printed version do not appear here. The former provide a wealth of information on a variety of phonetic issues, from "Abbreviations" to "Weak forms"; the latter contain the much needed summary advice on common grapho-phonemic correspondences of English. For some reason the user of the electronic version of the dictionary is deprived of access to these sections of the traditional hard-copy edition. The twenty-page introduction to the printed CEPD, with such sections as "Whose pronunciation is represented?," "Principles of transcription," and "The International Phonetic Alphabet," is also absent. [-1-]

The CEPD is obviously an excellent didactic resource in the field of EFL/ESL. However, there are some problems with the design and functionality of the CD-ROM, which are in part unavoidable teething pains for this new baby of Cambridge University Press and TEXTware A/S, yet some of which reflect more systematic flaws of current electronic lexicography. After all, CEPD is not the first electronic dictionary to feature phonetic transcription, audio recordings or listen-record-compare exercises. In my review of Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (Sobkowiak, 2003), for example, I analysed some common weaknesses such as: audio-transcription mismatches, IPA screen rendition problems, limited and/or confusing representation of phonostylistic variation (due to different accents and tempos of speech), Sound Search and Pronunciation Practice functionality problems, and unused potentials. While not the first electronic dictionary, CEPD is the first electronic pronunciation dictionary on CD-ROM, so naturally any phonetic weaknesses in its design and implementation are immediately thrown into especially sharp focus. These will be reviewed in the next section.

Designing the user interface for an electronic dictionary is no small task. All of linguistic, lexicographic, psychological and computational issues come into play to form a knot of conflicting demands and preferences. The challenge of making an electronic pronouncing dictionary is of course even greater; not only because of the multimedia (which is by now taken for granted by dictionary users), but because in the absence of all the semantic information, so prominent in an ordinary dictionary, the phonetic issues come to the foreground, with all the complexities outlined here. In this context, CEPD on CD-ROM is to be seen as a remarkable achievement of phono-lexicography. Most of the flaws detailed in this review can be easily remedied before the next edition appears, and those which might not will certainly continue to provide food for thought and research to metalexicographers and phoneticians. In the meantime learners and teachers of English pronunciation will be using this resource to great benefit.

EPD twice received major revisionsby its originator, one in 1937 and another in 1956. An excellent veryfull account of the origins and development of this dictionary is to befound in Collins and Mees (1999 pp 167-173 and 397-398). Jones'ssuccessor as the most highly regarded authority on the pronunciation ofBritish English, A. C. Gimson, in 1967, the year of Jones's death atthe age of 86, brought out a quite extensive revision of the text. Adecade later he converted the transcription into the now very widelyused set of symbols which incidentally he knew very well Jones wouldhave considered over complicated. Professor Roach has rightly keptthese symbols but additionally incorporated the minor improvement ofcolonless /i/ and /u/ to identify weak vowels such as the final one ofthe word happy, a practice ineffect originated by Gordon Walsh, the then Pronunciation Editor of theLongman Dictionary of ContemporaryEnglish, in 1978 and subsequently employed by Wells in the LPD.

Evidence of the present condition of our ruling educated speech in the South of England I shall take from Mr. Daniel Jones' dictionary,16 the authority of which cannot, I think, be disputed. It is true that it represents a pronunciation so bad that its slovenliness is likely to be thought overdone, but there is no more exaggeration than any economical [pg 31] system of phonetic spelling is bound to show. It is indeed a strong and proper objection to all such simplifications that they are unable to exhibit the finer distinctions; but this must not imply that Mr. Jones' ear is lacking in delicate perception, or that he is an incompetent observer. If he says, as he does say, that the second syllable in the words obloquy and parasite are spoken by educated Londoners with the same vowel-sound (which he denotes by , that is the sound of er in the word danger), then it is true that they are so pronounced, or at least so similarly that a trained ear refuses to distinguish them [blerquy, prersite]. e24fc04721