A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English

More than ten years ago several scholars especially interested in Ameri can English suggested to one of the present editors the making of a phonetic pronouncing dictionary of the speech of the United States that might serve, both in the United States and elsewhere, the purposes served for Southern British English by Professor Daniel Jones's English Pronouncing Dictionary. About six years ago the editors became associated in this work.

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