Phonetic symbols are a great help when it comes
to learning to pronounce English words correctly.
Any time you open a dictionary, you can find the
correct pronunciation of words you don't know by
looking at the phonetic pronunciation that
follows the word. But learning the phonetic
alphabet is not always the easiest thing to do.
Daniel Jones(12
September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was aLondon-bornBritishphonetician.
A pupil ofPaul
Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des
Hautes Études at theSorbonne(University
of Paris), Daniel Jones is considered by many to
be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th
century. He was head of the Department of
Phonetics atUniversity
College, London
Phonetic
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