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The book provides a comprehensive guide to the Moby Pronunciator II, a pronunciation dictionary, outlining its structure and content. It explains how each entry is formatted with a word or phrase followed by its IPA-equivalent pronunciation, using specific ASCII symbols to represent different sounds. The book covers the marking of stress and emphasis, handling of borrowed words, and the dictionary's contents, including the number of words and their transcriptions. It also acknowledges the sources used to generate the dictionary and invites user contributions, while outlining the terms of use, including unrestricted access and requirements for acknowledgement of its origin if used or redistributed.
This section explains the structure and content of the Moby Pronunciator II, a pronunciation dictionary. It describes how each entry consists of a word or phrase followed by its IPA-equivalent pronunciation, using specific ASCII symbols to represent different sounds. The section also details how stress and emphasis are marked, and how words borrowed from other languages are handled. Additionally, it provides information on the dictionary's contents, including the number of words and their transcriptions, as well as the phone set used. The section also acknowledges the sources used to generate the dictionary and invites users to contribute to its improvement. It outlines the terms of use, including the unrestricted nature of the dictionary, and requests acknowledgement of its origin if used or redistributed.