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a Self-Study Lab (interactive exercises with feedback).the entire text of the dictionary, on-screen.spoken versions of every headword, in BrE and AmE.The CD-ROM bundled with the dictionary includes for BrE, a survey conducted by Pearson Education and the author, including among others the words contribute, dissect, kilometre, liquorice, omega, tinnitus and tune.Bert Vaux, including among others the words almond, asterisk, caramel, chromosome, Presley, Thanksgiving and thespian

In addition to the pronunciation preference polls reported in the previous edition, there are now also polling results from two more polls, both conducted on-line: Asbo, bird flu, Botox, chav, latte, nanobot.Īmong words beginning fa-, for instance, you will now also find faddy,įade-in, fag-hag, fairness, fair-to-middling, fakie, falling-off, falling-out, fan-assisted, fanciable, fancy-dress, Fannie Mae, fantasist, farthermost, fat-free, fault-tolerant, fava.Īs in previous editions, non-English words come with the foreign-language phonetics as well as an appropriate anglicization: among the new additions are Abu Ghraib, al Qaeda, haram, niqab, and Sharm-el-Sheikh (Arabic), Ahmadinejad (Farsi), Benfica (Portuguese), Federer (German), gaijin and sudoku (Japanese), kimchi (Korean), mojito (Spanish), Putin (Russian), qi and Qingdao (Chinese), Sarkozy and Taizé (French), Terfel (Welsh), Tórshavn (Faroese).

and thousands of other assorted new words, e.g.

blogging, chatroom, digicam, eBay, Facebook, Google, podcast, Wikipedia, YouTube Athenry, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bussell, Cruyff, Ericsson, Obama, Rowling, Sentamu, Tehachapi, Titchmarsh, Verizon, Whampoa, Zellweger

CD-ROM with the Longman Pronunciation Coach.

The third edition continues the excellent tradition of the previous editions, but with extensive additions and improvements. Visit the Longman Dictionaries site, with three video clips of me talking about the new edition. With The Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM Longman Pronunciation Dictionary third edition, 2008

Longman phonetic dictionary