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Edition 14: Jones died in 1967, and the work of editing the EPD was taken up by his pupil Alfred C.Some editions appeared under the title Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary. Dent continued to produce the EPD until 1989. Editions 1 to 13: Jones published the EPD in 1917 with the publishing house Dent.This format did not find favour and a German-British work was in any case not likely to do well at the time of the First World War. The user therefore had to have recognized the phoneme sequence /eksplə'neiʃən/, before they could discover the spelling form of the word. A typical entry, given as an example in the preface, was eksplə'neiʃən 'explanation'. In this work, the headwords of the dictionary were listed in phonemic transcription, followed by their spelling form, so the user needed to be aware of the phonemic composition of a word, in order to discover its spelling. The precursor to the English Pronouncing Dictionary was A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language by Hermann Michaelis and Daniel Jones, published in Germany in 1913. Wells has written of it 'EPD has set the standard against which other dictionaries must inevitably be judged'. The dictionary is now in its 18th edition. It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.

The English Pronouncing Dictionary ( EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917.

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