To demonstrate the basic pronunciation of English words, the phonemic IPA could be surrounded by slashes /./. It would also be compatible with and a step towards learning the full set of IPA used for other languages or describing speech sounds in detail, for which other dictionary respellings cannot be used. But unlike any of those, it would serve equally well for an anglophone from London, Edinburgh, Pretoria, Toronto, Dallas, or Canberra. Such a transcription scheme would be functionally equivalent to one of the dictionary-specific respelling schemes (see the details of fifteen different schemes at pronunciation respelling for English), in that only a limited number of symbols would be used. I propose that we develop, or better yet find an existing standard for a broad phonemic IPA transcription which would cover all dialects of English.
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