"Where does Wikipedia get its pronunciation key?" Topic
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 John the OFM  | 27 Nov 2012 6:13 p.m. PST |
All I will say about it is that is totally incomprehensible for English speakers. It is full of obscure and arcane symbols that mean absolutely nothing to me. Ptui! I say… Ptui! |
| StarfuryXL5 | 27 Nov 2012 10:07 p.m. PST |
Ptui? How do you pronounce that? |
Buff Orpington  | 28 Nov 2012 4:16 a.m. PST |
Probably Boston then John. |
| AndrewGPaul | 28 Nov 2012 4:21 a.m. PST |
If you click said pronunciation key, you will end up at: link and hence to link |
| Grinning Norm | 29 Nov 2012 12:42 p.m. PST |
Quite many speakers of Non-English. And the English pronunciation guides are quite useless for most speakers of Non-English. International Phonetic Alphabet is pretty universal. I prefer the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet for most purposes though, but that's a matter of taste and convenience. It goes better with cognac, cigars and talk about etymologies. |
| Last Hussar | 02 Dec 2012 5:12 a.m. PST |
Of course it will be wrong for many words, such as aluminium. |
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