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Book

Pronouncing dictionary of proper names : pronunciations for more than 28,000 proper names, selected for currency, frequency, or difficulty of pronunciation

Call Number

  • R 929.4 B691 1997 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Detroit, Mich. : Omnigraphics, 1997.

Physical Description

1097 p. ; 26 cm.

Notes

"Including place names; given names; names of famous individuals; cultural, literary, historical, and Biblical names; mythological names; names of peoples and tribes; company names and product names; with pronunciations transcribed into the international phonetic alphabet and a simplified phonetic respelling; and including an explanatory introduction."

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