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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Famous quotes containing the words phonetic and/or dictionary:
“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)
“The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices—against half the human race—that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.”
—Eva Figes (b. 1932)