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Longman Pronunciation Dictionary

The third edition continues the excellent tradition of the previous editions, but with extensive additions and improvements.

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.

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