The 18th edition of Daniel Jones´s classic work is the definitive guid e to contemporary English pronunciation. This new and fully updated ed ition contains over 230,000 pronunciations of words, names and phrases . In addition, it includes lively essays on aspects of pronunciation b y leading experts in the field, a phonetics and phonology glossary and notes explaining the relationship between spellings and sounds. The a ccompanying CD-ROM includes exercises, pronunciation practice and phon etic search facility for comparing sounds.