ABSTRACT
It is this century that has seen the real development of English pronouncing dictionaries with the indication of pronunciation in an established and recognised phonetic alphabetic form. One of the first such dictionaries in this century to use the IPA was a co-edited effort by H. Michaelis and Daniel Jones for their A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language (1913), followed, in 1917, by Daniel Jones's English Pronouncing Dictionary . The extensive revision of that now classic work by A.C. Gimson in 1977 (the 14th edition) assures the colleague we honour in this volume an eminent place in the story of the development of pronunciation in English language dictionaries. The telling of that story is the purpose of this essay; it begins, slowly, with the seventeenth century. 1
