n. An analysis of American English vowels proposed by John Kenyon and Thomas Knott (1953). In contrast to the Trager-Smith system, Kenyon and Knott analyse most nuclei as single elements. The system is intended to handle all major types of American...

n. (in full, the English Pronouncing Dictionary) The most comprehensive and influential pronouncing dictionary of British English for many years. The first edition appeared in 1917, edited by Daniel Jones, who also edited a number of succeeding...

Kenyon and Knott is the informal name for A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, first published in 1944 by John Samuel Kenyon and Thomas A. Knott. It provides a phonemic transcription of General American pronunciations of words, using symbols...