How are the Phonetic entries sorted?
For a general introduction to the phonetic symbols, see this FAQ question. This is the alphabetical order of phonetic symbols: First, phonetic words are sorted according to the alphabetical order above ignoring tone marks. Then, ties are broken based on the tone marks, in this order: This is a little bit different from Paiboon Publishing’s paper Thai-English English-Thai dictionary. Unlike the paper dictionary, we have not attempted to group together words which start with the two-letter consonant symbols “bp,” “ch,” “dt”, and “ng” into their own section of the dictionary. For example, in our software dictionary you will find the word “baa” first, then “bpaa,” then “buum,” whereas the paper dictionary would list “baa” and “buum” in the “b” section, and then “bpaa” would appear after that, in the “bp” section.
