A phonetic dictionary (also known as a pronouncing dictionary) is a dictionary that allows you to locate the word by the way it sounds. These dictionaries are useful when the spelling of a word is unknown.
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“The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
““Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?” asked Mrs. Dodypol. “It depends,” says I, “how much you used the dictionary before you read it.””
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