Pronunciation Guide*

Stress or emphasis is marked in the data with the primary "'" or secondary "," marks:

Some words are borrowed from other languages. Special sounds include (case is significant):

Words and Phrases adopted from languages other than English have the unaccented form of the roman spelling. For example, "etude" has an initial accented "e" but is spelled without the accent.

*All the pronunciation entries plus this guide are from the Moby lexicon project. For more information visit http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ and search for Grady Ward (the author) or visit http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/ . Also note that this pronunciation guide has been paraphrased and parts irrelevant to this software have been removed.