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Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers.
Recently a polished, precise form of General American has come to be called Network Standard: it is the speech of many of the prominent announcers and commentators on national television.
It is possible that radio and TV announcers are to blame, although the Blue Band example shows that TV is not accepted as an authority on pronunciation, when the purchasers of the product kept on calling it marjoreen in spite of the manufacturer's instructions to the contrary.
Thus, to BBC announcers, President Clinton's residence is the White House , while, to Americans, it is the White House; and I once heard a BBC announcer say Prometheus Bound when an American would have said Prometheus Bound .
Standard English meant the King's English, and in this outpost of Empire, announcers (though unseen) wore dinner suits to read the news and abided by the rulings of the English phonetician Daniel Jones, whose tremendously influential English Pronouncing Dictionary was first published in 1917.
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