TAILIEUCHUNG - THE ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY

The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) is one of the most well-known works on English pronunciation. Its first edition, published in 1917 and written by Daniel Jones, used symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the pronunciations of English words. This system of transcription was further improved by A. C. Gimson in the 13th edition of the EPD (published 1967). Gimson's system is now used by nearly all English dictionaries published in the UK, including those from publishers like Oxford, Longman or Collins. The first 14 editions of the EPD covered only British English. The 15th edition (1997), published by. | THE ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY 16th EDITION The English Pronouncing Dictionary EPD is one of the most well-known works on English pronunciation. Its first edition published in 1917 and written by Daniel Jones used symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the pronunciations of English words. This system of transcription was further improved by A. C. Gimson in the 13th edition of the EPD published 1967 . Gimson s system is now used by nearly all English dictionaries published in the UK including those from publishers like Oxford Longman or Collins. The first 14 editions of the EPD covered only British English. The 15th edition 1997 published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Peter Roach James Hartman and Jane Setter introduced American pronunciations. The changes in the 16th edition 2003 are relatively small new words and over 150 information panels explaining phonetics terminology. Install to hard drive The setup program for the EPD offers an install to hard drive feature which is absolutely necessary in every software dictionary. It lets you use the dictionary without the CD in your CD-ROM drive so you don t have to look for the CD when you want to look up a word. The English Pronouncing Dictionary -1 Basic interface First of all the software loads quite slowly. It took about 10 seconds to load on Tom s Pentium III 733 MHz machine. For comparison the Collins COBUILD on CD-ROM takes only 2 seconds. When you run a software dictionary you want to look up some words as quickly as possible. You certainly don t want to stare at the welcome screen and the publisher s logo for 10 seconds. Looking up words is easy. You don t have to press any special buttons just type the word and press Enter. That is good. The entries are easy to read. The font is very readable and you can choose from three text sizes. What s important the developers did not simply copy the layout from the book dictionary which has very little space. Instead they tried to .

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