- ''PRONUNCIATION SYMBOLS
- əˈə, ˌəə̄as in one pronunciation used by r-droppers for birdə̇əimmediately preceding \\ l \\, \\ n \\, \\ m \\, \\ ŋ \\ as in battle, mitten, eaten and sometimes openəiərāȧfather as pronounced by speakers who do not rhyme it with bother; farther and cart as pronounced by r-droppersbad, bag, fan as often pronounced in an area having New York City and Washington, D. C. on its perimeterau̇chin, nature \\ ˈnā-chər \\d.ˈē, ˌēē(in transcriptions of foreign words only) indicates a vowel with the quality of e in bet but long, not the sound of the ee in sleep; en arrière \\ äⁿnȧryeer \\eu̇īḵⁿindicates that a preceding vowel is pronounced with the nasal passages open, as in French blanc \\bläⁿ\\ŋōȯœFrench bœuf, German Hölleœ̅ȯiōō(in transcriptions of foreign words only) indicates a vowel with the quality of o in bone but longer, not the sound of oo in food: comte \\kōōⁿt\\with nothing between, as in shy, mission, machine, special (actually, this is a single sound, not two); with a stress mark between, two sounds as in death's-head \\ˈdethsˌhed\\with nothing between, as in thin, ether (actually, this is a single sound, not two); with a stress mark between, two sounds as in knighthood \\ˈnītˌhu̇d\\thu̇u̅e̅yard, cue \\ˈkyü\\, union \\ˈyünyən\\y(in transcriptions of foreign words only) indicates that during the articulation of the sound represented by the preceding character the tip of the tongue has substantially the position it has for the articulation of the first sound of yard as in French dignezhwith nothing between, as in vision, azure \\ˈazhə(r)\\ (actually, this is a single sound, not two); with a stress mark between, two sounds as in rosehill\slant line used in pairs to mark the beginning and end of a transcription: \\ \\ˈmark preceding a syllable with primary (strongest) stressˌmark preceding a syllable with secondary (next-strongest) stress¦combined marks preceding a syllable whose stress varies between primary and secondary_inferior minus sign canceling a stress in the same position in a preceding pronunciation or emphasizing that a following syllable is without stress.mark of syllable division inserted in a sequence of sounds that can have more than one syllable division̷ ̷symbol for the sounds of a syllable( ), (...indicate that what is symbolized between or after is present in some utterances, but not in others“ditto mark, indicating that a preceding pronunciation is to be repeated+in an incomplete pronunciation signifies that the missing part is to be sought elsewhere in the vocabulary: geopositive \\|jē(ˌ)ō+\\ (the pronunciation of positive is to be sought at positive)+Vmeans "when a vowel sound follows without pause, as in a suffix or another word"]facilitates the placement of variant pronunciation: flightily \\ˈflīd.]əlē, -īt], ]əli, ]ə̇l-\\labels certain pronunciations used by speakers who do not drop r-Rlabels certain pronunciations used by speakers who drop r÷indicates that many regard as unacceptable the one pronunciation immediately following: cupola \\ˈkyüpələ, ÷-pəˌlō\\, sacrilegious \\÷|sakrə̇|lijəs\\...indicates an omission to be supplied from a preceding entry or an entry elsewhere: dilettantish \\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|t...ntish\\ (four variants for the a are to be supplied from dilettante I):boldface symbolic colon signals a definition or sense
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
