Guide to Pronunciation

An apostrophe indicates the syllable to be most strongly accented and a comma , indicates a syllable to be secondarily accented. The following symbols are used to indicate pronunciations: a as in act, that a as in aid, date ch as in charge, beach d as in do, had e as in ebb, ten e as in equal, team as in unaccented syllables, e.g., alone, agent, sanity, gallop, focus f as in fit, differ g as in give, dog h as in hit, behind i as in if, bit i as in ice, bite j as in joy, digit k as in cast, kill, make l as in let, mellow m as in met, summer n as in now, dent o as in ox, top o as in over, boat oi as in oil, boy oo as in hoot ou as in out, power p as in put, slip r as in red, hurry s as in sign, miss t as in ten, cat th as in thin, path u as in up, love u as in use, fuel v as in voice, weave w as in wind, away y as in yet, lawyer z as in zoo, those zh as in vision, treasure

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