User:Hippietrail/IPA/English

It's hard to believe at first, but even though many English dictionaries use IPA, there is actually quite a variety of ways they use it. The number of phonemes is pretty much constant, but the choice of symbols varies. There are also a few quirks of English pronunciation which are seldom discussed in the Pronunciation Guide of the dictionary but can be handled in different ways by different dictionaries.

I'll be maintaining this page as a reference for whenever discussions of IPA in English come up, so that we'll something to compare against rather than just how we think things work.


 * Title: PONS Kompaktwörterbuch, Teil 1: English - Deutsch, Dates: 1991-2001, ISBN: 3-12-517119-9
 * Pronunciation guide: plant, farm, father: five, life:  house, mouse:  man, sad:  get, bed:  name, same:  ago, better:  bird, her:  there, care:  but, son:  it, wish:  bee, see, me, beat, belief:  here, near:  no, low:  not, long:  law, all:  boy, oil:  push, look:  you, do:  poor, sure:  red, dry:
 * Other findings: Scottish ch: loch unstressed e: chicken  syllabic l: able  syllabic m: not found syllabic n: auction  optional rhotic r: are  wh- : what  unstressed -y: abbey


 * Title: Gads Forlag engelsk-dansk dansk-engelsk, Dates: 1994-2002, ISBN: 87-12-03855-5
 * Pronunciation guide: bat, mad: half, carve:  winter, bird:,  bear, them: ,  not, lord: ,  nut, but:
 * Missing from pronunciation guide:
 * Other findings: Scottish ch: loch unstressed e: chicken  syllabic l: able  syllabic m: not found syllabic n: button  optional rhotic r: are  wh- : what  unstressed -y: abbey


 * Title: Angol Magyar Kéziszótár English-Hungarian, Dates: 1999-2001, ISBN: 963 05 7779 8
 * Pronunciation guide: kin Ben  bad  ago  love  shop  foot  happy  sea  calm  bird  law  too  tape  type  boil  how  know  beer  bear  cure
 * American: got long  bird
 * Missing from pronunciation guide:
 * Other findings: Scottish ch: loch unstressed e: chicken  syllabic l: able  syllabic m: prism  syllabic n: button  optional rhotic r: not indicated wh- : what,  unstressed -y: see above


 * Title: Diccionario Oxford Pocket Edición Latinoamericana
 * Other findings: unstressed e: chicken tSIkIn syllabic l: able eIbl syllabic m: xxx ??? syllabic n: button bVtn