What are the pronunciation rules?
We have modeled some of the pronuciation tips on this site after the techniques used by professional linguists to convey pronuciations to English-speaking non-linguists. Accented syllables are in UPPERCASE. The following is a key to the pronunciations; it is available on every ‘talking’ page of the dictionary, on the left side under the navigation menu. “ə” as in above, a as in “bat”, ah as in “father”, ahr as in “park”, air as in “hair”, aw as in “crawl”, ay as in “stay”, b as in “bib”, ch as in “cherry”, d as in “dirt”, e as in “leg”, ee as in “heat”, eer as in “gear”, f as in “fat”, g as in “gut”, h as in “hoe”, i as in “pick”, ī (long-i, i with a macron diacritic mark over it) as in “bite”, j as in “joy”, k as in “kite”, l as in “lift”, m as in “merry”, n as in “note”, ng as in “song”, o as in “dot”, oh as in “bone”, oi as in “boil”, oo as in “boot”, oor as in “cure”, or as in “for”, ow as in “pow”, p as in “perfect”, r as in “rat”, s as in “snake”, sh as in “bush”, t as in “tap”,
