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)
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a dictionary to decipher.”
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