LEGEND for mobypron.unc

Each pronunciation vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase field
followed by a field delimiter of space " " and the IPA-equivalent
field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case is
significant). Spaces between words in the word or phrase or
pronunciation field is denoted with underbar "_".

/&/     sounds like the "a" in "dab"
/(@)/   sounds like the "a" in "air"
/A/     sounds like the "a" in "far"
/eI/    sounds like the "a" in "day"
/@/     sounds like the "a" in "ado"
        or the glide "e" in "system" (dipthong schwa)
/-/     sounds like the "ir" glide in "tire"
        or the  "dl" glide in "handle"
        or the "den" glide in "sodden" (dipthong little schwa)
/b/     sounds like the "b" in "nab"
/tS/    sounds like the "ch" in "ouch"
/d/     sounds like the "d" in "pod"
/E/     sounds like the "e" in "red"
/i/     sounds like the "e" in "see"
/f/     sounds like the "f" in "elf"
/g/     sounds like the "g" in "fig"
/h/     sounds like the "h" in "had"
/hw/    sounds like the "w" in "white"
/I/     sounds like the "i" in "hid"
/aI/    sounds like the "i" in "ice"
/dZ/    sounds like the "g" in "vegetable"
/k/     sounds like the "c" in "act"
/l/     sounds like the "l" in "ail"
/m/     sounds like the "m" in "aim"
/N/     sounds like the "ng" in "bang"
/n/     sounds like the "n" in "and"
/Oi/    sounds like the "oi" in "oil"
/A/     sounds like the "o" in "bob"
/AU/    sounds like the "ow" in "how"
/O/     sounds like the "o" in "dog"
/oU/    sounds like the "o" in "boat"
/u/     sounds like the "oo" in "too"
/U/     sounds like the "oo" in "book"
/p/     sounds like the "p" in "imp"
/r/     sounds like the "r" in "ire"
/S/     sounds like the "sh" in "she"
/s/     sounds like the "s" in "sip"
/T/     sounds like the "th" in "bath"
/D/     sounds like the "th" in "the"
/t/     sounds like the "t" in "tap"
/@/     sounds like the "u" in "cup"
/@r/    sounds like the "u" in "burn"
/v/     sounds like the "v" in "average"
/w/     sounds like the "w" in "win"
/j/     sounds like the "y" in "you"
/Z/     sounds like the "s" in "vision"
/z/     sounds like the "z" in "zoo"

Stress or emphasis is marked in the data with the primary "'" or
secondary "," marks: "'" (uncurled apostrophe) marks primary stress
"," (comma) marks secondary stress.

Moby Pronunciator contains many common names and phrases borrowed from
other languages; special sounds include (case is significant):

"A"  sounds like the "a" in "ami"
"N"  sounds like the "n" in "Francoise"
"R"  sounds like the "r" in "Der"
/x/  sounds like the "ch" in "Bach"
/y/  sounds like the "eu" in "cordon bleu"
"Y"  sounds like the "u" in "Dubois"

Words and Phrases adopted from languages other than English have the
unaccented form of the roman spelling. For example, "etude" has an
initial accented "e" but is spelled without the accent in the Moby
Pronunciator II database.  Each two-part vocabulary record is
delimited from others with CRLF (ASCII 13/10)

SPECIAL FEATURE OF THIS LEXICON: several hundred words pronounced
differently because of their part-speech have been distinguished.  For
example,the entries: close/v kl/oU/z and close/aj kl/oU/s (terminal
sibilant varies) effect/n '/I/,f/E/kt and effect/v ,/I/'f/E/kt (stress
varies) distinguish those two parts of speech. (Any word with this
information will terminate with the virgule (slash) in the vocabulary
field, followed by one or more of the following part-of-speech
abbreviations: n, v, av, aj, interj, followed by the rest of the
pronunciation record.
