How should students pronounce the first syllable of dissect or the last vowel of hurricane? Where should they putt he stress on contribute? This 3rd edition of the Longman Pronunication Dictionary gives students detailed guidance on over 225,000 pronunciations of words, including people and place names.

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The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary:

• Helps students with over 225,000 pronunciations in both British and American English using the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Helps students with intonation by showing the stress patterns of thousands of compounds and idioms
• User-friendly graphs show the preferred pronunciations of British and American speakers, based on extensive research by Professor Wells

John Wells is Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London and is the former ...