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(Intriguing, though, to learn that Microsoft only approached Funk & Wagnalls to collaborate on an encyclopedia CD-ROM after being turned down by a haughty Encyclopedia
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
[Funk & Wagnalls New Standard]
(I have often wondered why the publishers did not have the nerve to call themselves “F**k and Wagnalls.”
Britannica . Microsoft and Funk & Wagnalls' Encarta is now the leading encyclopedia in the multimedia market, whereas Britannica is up for sale.)