Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
third edition, 2008
with The Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM
Out now!
Visit the Longman Dictionaries site, with three video clips of me talking about the new edition.
What�s new in LPD3?
The third edition continues the excellent tradition of the previous editions, but with extensive additions and improvements.
* 3000 added headwords
* results of two new opinion polls
* CD-ROM with the Longman Pronunciation Coach
New headwords
Among the new headwords are
* proper names, e.g. Athenry, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bussell, Cruyff, Ericsson, Obama, Rowling, Sentamu, Tehachapi, Titchmarsh, Verizon, Whampoa, Zellweger;
* terms relating to the internet, e.g. blogging, chatroom, digicam, eBay, Facebook, Google, podcast, Wikipedia, YouTube;
* and thousands of other assorted new words, e.g. Asbo, bird flu, Botox, chav, latte, nanobot. Among words beginning fa-, for instance, you will now also find faddy, fade-in, ~censored~-hag, fairness, fair-to-middling, fakie, falling-off, falling-out, fan-assisted, fanciable, fancy-dress, Fannie Mae, fantasist, farthermost, fat-free, fault-tolerant, fava.
As in previous editions, non-English words come with the foreign-language phonetics as well as an appropriate anglicization: among the new additions are Abu Ghraib, al Qaeda, haram, niqab, and Sharm-el-Sheikh (Arabic), Ahmadinejad (Farsi), Benfica (Portuguese), Federer (German), gaijin and sudoku (Japanese), kimchi (Korean), mojito (Spanish), Putin (Russian), qi and Qingdao (Chinese), Sarkozy and Taiz� (French), Terfel (Welsh), T�rshavn (Faroese).
Preference polls
In addition to the pronunciation preference polls reported in the previous edition, there are now also polling results from two more polls, both conducted on-line:
* for AmE, a survey conducted by Prof. Bert Vaux, including among others the words almond, asterisk, caramel, chromosome, Presley, Thanksgiving and thespian;
* for BrE, a survey conducted by Pearson Education and the author, including among others the words contribute, dissect, kilometre, liquorice, omega, tinnitus and tune. (more...)
CD-ROM
with the Longman Pronunciation Coach
The CD-ROM bundled with the dictionary includes
* spoken versions of every headword, in BrE and AmE
* the entire text of the dictionary, on-screen
* a Self-Study Lab (interactive exercises with feedback)
* a Teachers� Resource Centre with worksheets and suggestions for classroom activities
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