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Such information might be appropriate to a reference work for phoneticians, dialectologists, and other linguists, but its usefulness and meaningfulness in a dictionary for ordinary dictionary users is not immediately apparent.
When I worked on the setting up of the pronunciation system for the Random House dictionaries, I examined sound spectrograms of words that middle, total, sudden, servant, father, standard , etc., that some phoneticians transcribed using syllabic \?\, \?\, and \?\.
Phoneticians, pronunciation editors of dictionaries, linguists, language teachers, and others who are—and ought to be—interested in and knowledgeable about the sounds of many languages and who have—and ought to have—sufficient background and training to understand the technical materials on which understanding of the text relies will be amply rewarded by this valuable book.
The transcriptions are, mercifully, what phoneticians call “broad,” which provide the basic information needed to be able to reproduce the pronunciation, as compared with “narrow,” in which detailed phonetic features are reflected that are useful for specialists but clutter up the field for ordinary users.
It would be an interesting experiment for phoneticians to ask Michael Buerk to recite the line how now brown cow .