Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Third edition, 2008
with The Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM
What’s new in LPD3?
The third edition continues the excellent tradition of the previous editions, but with extensive additions and improvements.
- 3000 added headwords
- results of two new opinion polls
- CD-ROM with the Longman Pronunciation Coach
New headwords
Among the new headwords are
- proper names, e.g. Athenry, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bussell, Cruyff, Ericsson, Obama, Rowling, Sentamu, Tehachapi, Titchmarsh, Verizon, Whampoa, Zellweger;
- terms relating to the internet, e.g. blogging, chatroom, digicam, eBay, Facebook, Google, podcast, Wikipedia, YouTube;
- and thousands of other assorted new words, e.g. Asbo, bird flu, Botox, chav, latte, nanobot. Among words beginning fa-, for instance, you will now also find faddy, fade-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.
CD-ROM
with the Longman Pronunciation Coach
The CD-ROM bundled with the dictionary includes
- spoken versions of every headword, in BrE and AmE
- the entire text of the dictionary, on-screen
- a Self-Study Lab (interactive exercises with feedback)
- a Teachers’ Resource Centre with worksheets and suggestions for classroom activities
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