The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative pronunciation dictionary availablel. This expanded and completely updated new edition includes:
- 135,000 pronunciations, giving full coverage of both British and American English using the alphabet of the international Phonetic Association
- Over 200 graphs showing pronuncitaion preferences of Brithis and American speakers, and how these are changing, for words like controversy, either, harass,and garagebased on Professor Wells's unique Pronunciation Preference Poll over the Internet
- Recommended pronunciations clearly shown in blue for each word, as well as other pronunciations in common use
- Stress patterns for thousands of compounds and idioms
- More than 50 Spelling-to-sound boxes and 35 Language Panels
- Thousnads of proper names, including
    - People-forenames, family names, names of literary, and mythological figures
    - Places thousands of cities, twons, and rivers in Britain, North America, and Australia, as well as major towns, cities, and revers in the rest of the world
    - Commercial products and brands
    - Pronunciation in the language of origin, as well as English, for words asnd names from foreign language.

1. Introduction
2. Types of Pronunciation recorded
3. The English Phonemic System and its Notation
4. Foreign Languages
5. Symbols

- The Dictionary A-Z
- Abbreviations
- Typographical conventions, Stress marks, Other
- Symbols