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1、GuidetoPronunciationPronunciationisnotanintrinsiccomponentofthedic-tionsinCanada,suchasdecalandkhaki,havethosepro-tionary.Forsomelanguages,suchasSpanish,Swahili,andnunciationsdulynoted.PronunciationspeculiartocertainFinnish,thecorrespondencebetweenorthographyandspheresofactivityare
2、alsorepresented,asforexamplethepronunciationissoclosethatadictionaryneedonlyspellvariantsofathwartandtackleheardinnauticaluse.Final-awordcorrectlytoindicateitspronunciation.Modernly,awiderangeofunpredictablevariationsareincluded,English,however,displaysnosuchconsistencyinsoundsucha
3、sthepronunicationofeconomicwitheithereorandspelling,andsoadictionaryofEnglishmustdevote‡.Unpredictablevariationsfrequentlycutacrosstheconsiderableattentiontothepronunciationofthelan-boundariesofgeographicaldialects,sometimesrunningguage.TheEnglishlexiconcontainsnumerouseyerhyme
4、salongthelinesofsocialclass,ethnicity,orgenderinstead.suchaslove,move,androve,wordswhichdonotsoundInfine,thisdictionaryattemptstoinclude—eitherexplic-alikedespitetheirsimilarspellings.Ontheotherhand,ititlyorbyimplication—allpronunciationvariantsofaalsocontainsrhymingwordssuchasbree
5、ze,cheese,ease,wordthatareusedbyeducatedspeakersoftheEnglishfrieze,andsleazewhoserhymesareallspelleddifferently.language.ThisgrandmismatchbetweenwordsthatlookalikeandThepronunciationsinthisdictionaryareinformedwordsthatsoundalikedoesatleastservetorecordsome-chieflybytheMerriam-Webs
6、terpronunciationfile.ThisthingofthehistoryoftheEnglish-speakingpeoplesandfilecontainscitationsthataretranscriptionsofwordsusedtheirlanguage.SpellingoftenindicateswhetherawordbynativespeakersofEnglishinthecourseofutterancescomesdownfromthenativeAnglo-Saxonwordstockorheardinspeeches,
7、interviews,andconversations.Inthiswasadoptedinsuccessiveagesfromthespeechofamis-extensivecollectionof3×5slipsofpaper,onefindsthesionarymonkchantingLatin,aseafaringVikingdickeringpronunciationsofahostofpeople:politicians,professors,inOldNorse,aNormannoblemangivingordersincurators,ar
8、tists,musicians,doctors,en
