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[Tom Zurinskas]

My first cut at the truespel dictionary was with the American Heritiage, then later additions were with m-w.com.  I didn't do word to word comparing, but my experience is that they are practically identical.  There is a standard USA pronunciation.

You make me wonder about comparing words with the "awe" phoneme in them.  My feeling is that m-w.com favors awe-dropping.  The word "boss" for instance in m-w.com is spoken ~baas.  But toss and loss are "awe" words, ~taus, ~laus.  Not very consistent.

"Talking" dictionaries are a fairly recent phenomenon.  Wonderful.  Talk on the internet as well.  I apparently am the only person to talk in this forum.  We should do it more.  Anybody got a good way?

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com


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> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:32:19 -0600
> From: Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
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> Yes, it's free/available, but is there any reason to suppose it is
> accurate? Or complete?
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> When American Heritage and M-W differ, who do you prefer?
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>> I've got a few issues with m-w.com but I applaud them roundly.
> They've
>> given us a marvelous resource for free such that we can hear the
>> pronunciation of English words in USA accent. That was a major task
> to
>> give away (granted there are some popups).
>>
>> They've done a good job and were very brave coming forward with it. I
>> also use the American Heritage Talking Dictionary, which I paid for
>> before m-w.com came along.
>>
>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>> see truespel.com
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>>>>
>>>> To use m-w.com as a pronunciation standard, I'll truespel the
> sounds
>> I
>>>> hear in your list.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> To use m-2.com as a "standard" seems somewhat arbitrary. Do you have
>>> any reason to use it other than it is available?
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