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• Full coverage of both British and American pronunciations using the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Over 225,000 pronunciations - including people and places
• Clear graphs show the pronunciation preferences of British and American speakers - based on Professor Wells'Pronunciation Preference Poll
• Language Panels discuss aspects of English pronunciation theory

• Spelling-to-sound notes explain the relationship between spelling and pronunciation Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM

• Listen to all pronunciations in both British and American English
• Record and check your own pronunciations
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Auteur

John Wells is Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London and is the former holder of the Daniel Jones Chair of Phonetics at the Univeristy of 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 radio (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, third edition 2008).

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The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary available.

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• 135,000 pronuncaitions of words in both British & American English
• over 200 graphs showing pronunciaiton preferences of British & American speakers
• stress patterns for thousands of compounds & idioms
• more than 50 Spelling-to-sound boxes and 35 Language Panels
• thousands of proper names
• pronunciation in the lanugage of origin as well as English