Same with the 80s. My Gramma who was a school teacher in 1933 taught me out of a 100 yr old dictionary. In all the times I’ve moved, I’ve managed to hold onto that huge, leather-bound book.
The American Phonetic Dic-tionary of the English Language, edited by Dan S. Smalley, Cincinnati, 1855, has a unique interest. The oldest English dictionary to be printed in a “phonetic” alphabet
It’s called a dictionary, and they’ve been doing it for literally years at this point.
You can live your life to the fullest even if you don’t know phonetic alphabet
You don’t need to. The Free Dictionary has buttons on every word that speak the word in either US or UK English
Cool, my book doesn’t have that though!
Better call the hotline then!
The pronunciation guide of a dictionary is pretty fuckin esoteric at this point.
I was educated in the 80s and they still didn’t teach us how to pronounce words using the dictionary.
Same with the 80s. My Gramma who was a school teacher in 1933 taught me out of a 100 yr old dictionary. In all the times I’ve moved, I’ve managed to hold onto that huge, leather-bound book.
Wholesome :)
I rejected those lessons after they dropped this on my desk:
/ə/
Still won’t help if your locality uses a different pronunciation.
*literally hundreds of years
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00335634209380758?needAccess=true
oh man, asking a kid in this era to look something up in the dictionary is quite the challenge.
In this book? why? why not just look it up online?
BECAUSE GODDAMNIT REASONS AND SHIT
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