Re: OT: English -uice
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:50 |
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Mark J. Reed skrev:
> On 8/2/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...> wrote:
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>> The LPD
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> The what? To me that TLA means either "Line Printer Daemon" or "Local
> Police Department". :) Which dictionary is that?
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Longmans Pronounciation dictionary by J.C. Wells,
phonetics professor in London and of (X-)SAMPA
fame. It covers both RP and GenAm, too.
There is a lot of great stuff on his homepage
<http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/>
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