This new third edition of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary gives students detailed guidance on over 225,000 pronunciations. Fully revised for 2008, it includes new words such as iTunes, Skype andTikrit. This new edition also includes the brand new Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM which gives students practical help to improve their own pronunciation. Need help with pronunciation? The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary: • Helps students with over 225,000 pronunciations in both British and American English using the International Phonetic Alphabet • Helps students with intonation by showing the stress patterns of thousands of compounds and idioms • User-friendly graphs show the preferred pronunciations of British and American speakers, based on extensive research by Professor Wells NEW — now with the Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM • Students can listen to the pronunciation of all entries in British and American English, then record and check their own pronunciation • Self Study Lab — Students can learn the International Phonetic Alphabet and practise their pronunciation with thousands of interactive exercises and feedback from Professor Wells • Teachers' Resource Centre provides you with downloadable exercises for use in class

•135,000 pronunciations, giving full coverage of both British and American English using the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association •over 200 graphs showing pronunciation preferences of British and American speakers, and how these are changing, for words like controversy, either, harass, and garage -based on Professor Wells's unique Pronunciation Preference Poll over the Internet •recommended pronunciations clearly shown in blue for each word, as well as other pronunciations in common use •stress patterns for thousands of compounds and idioms •more than 5O Spelling-to-sound boxes and 35 Language Panels •thousands of proper names, including: •people — forenames, family names, names of literary, and mythological figures •places — thousands of cities, towns, and rivers in Britain, North America, and Australia, as well as major towns, cities, and rivers in the rest of the world •commercial products and brands •pronunciation in the language of origin, as well as English, for words and names from foreign languages The author. Professor John Wells, holds the Chair of Phonetics in the University of London — a position previously occupied by A C Gimson and, before him, Daniel Jones, who was responsible for establishing the standard IPA system used in English Language Teaching throughout the world.