Visit the Longman Dictionaries site, with three video clips of me talking about the new edition,
What s new in LPD3!
The third edition continues the excellent tradition of the previous editions, but with extensive additions and improvements,
- 3000 added headwords
- results of two new opinion polls
- CD-ROM with the Longman Pronunciation Coach
New headwords
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, ~censored~-hag, fairness, fair-to-middling, fakie, falling-off, falling-out, fan-assisted, fanciable, fancy-dress, Fannie Mae, fantasist, farthermost, fat-free, fault-tolerant, fava,
As in previous editions, non-English words come with the foreign-language phonetics as well as an appropriate anglicization: among the new additions are Abu Ghraib, al Qaeda, haram, niqab, and Sharm-el-Sheikh [ Arabic ], Ahmadinejad [ Farsi ], Benfica [ Portuguese ], Federer [ German ], gaijin and sudoku [ Japanese ], kimchi [ Korean ], mojito [ Spanish ], Putin [ Russian ], qi and Qingdao [ Chinese ], Sarkozy and Taizé [ French ], Terfel [ Welsh ], Tórshavn [ Faroese ],
Preference polls
In addition to the pronunciation preference polls reported in the previous edition, there are now also polling results from two more polls, both conducted on-line:
- for AmE, a survey conducted by Prof, Bert Vaux, including among others the words almond, asterisk, caramel, chromosome, Presley, Thanksgiving and thespian;
- for BrE, a survey conducted by Pearson Education and the author, including among others the words contribute, dissect, kilometre, liquorice, omega, tinnitus and tune, [ more... ]
CD-ROM
with the Longman Pronunciation Coach
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
- Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 3rd Edition 2008 COACH CD
- Portable Oxford Eng Dictionary with Pronunciation
- Babylon7.0.0 r13
- Talking Dictionary v7.1.0
- Talking Dictionary 9.0
- Learn To Speak English v 8.1 - 4 CD Full
- WhiteSmoke 2008
- Magenta GOLDEN VERSION 2006
- Thai Translation Tools Software
- Babylon v7.0.3.r23 with Five Premier Dictionaries-ZWT
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