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At the time of the publication of the 16th edition, a CD-ROM disk (compatible with Windows but not with Apple computers) was produced which contains the full contents of the dictionary together with a recording of each headword, in British and American pronunciation. The recorded pronunciations can be played by clicking on a loudspeaker icon.
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, [1] although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition.
Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.
First respell removed as either confusing or not following Help: Pronunciation respelling key. 10 Ne: Neon Removed as common 11 Na: Sodium Removed as common 12 Mg: Magnesium / m æ ɡ ˈ n iː z i ə m / mag-NEE-zee-əm: 13 Al: Aluminium aluminium: / ˌ æ l (j) ʊ ˈ m ɪ n i ə m / ⓘ AL-(y)uu-MIN-ee-əm: aluminum: / ə ˈ l uː m ə n ə m ...
For a table that shows the pronunciations of these vowels in a wider range of English accents, see Sound correspondences between English accents. The following tables show the vowel phonemes of three standard varieties of English. The notation system used here for Received Pronunciation (RP) is fairly standard; the others less so.
The unabridged Collins English Dictionary was published on the web on 31 December 2011 on CollinsDictionary.com, along with the unabridged dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian. [5] The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the Google ...
Edward Artin, who succeeded Kenyon as the pronunciation editor of Webster's Dictionary, sought to revise the pronouncing dictionary many years after the publication of Webster's Third (1961), but to no avail, since none of the publishers Artin approached, including the Merriam company, thought it profitable to publish a new edition of the ...
The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary [1] (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987, [2] is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions in full sentences, rather than excerpted phrases. Example sentences are given for almost every meaning of every word, drawn from a large corpus of actual usage.