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Nádasdy Ádám
Huron's angol kiejtési kézikönyv
[Huron's English Pronunciation Dictionary]
contributor: Szigetvári Péter
Budapest: Biográf, 2000.

The dictionary is available in good bookshops and at a significant discount from Nádasdy and Szigetvári.

In addition to the standard IPA transcriptions, this dictionary contains the pronunciation of over 60 000 English words and names in standard Hungarian orthography. This way of rendering the pronunciation merges several phonemic differences of English, but in most cases gives what we believe to be standard educated pronunciation of these words in a Hungarian context, i.e., the recommended pronunciation for newsreaders, DJs etc., who do not — and in fact when speaking Hungarian, should not — utter English words in an English way.

The transcriptions may also prove useful for students beginning to study English. If unfamiliar with IPA symbols (as most such students are), the standard Hungarian orthography brings English pronunciation closer by showing an approximate form and proving that the English sounds are not so different from Hungarian sounds as the IPA symbols suggest.

Here follows a sample set of entries from the dictionary. The prefix means that the word has a General American pronunciation significantly different from the Hungarianized British.  precedes pronunciations traditionally Hungarianized when these differ from what the algorithm generally used in the dictionary gives. A  is used before traditionally Hungarianized pronunciations which are deprecated, usually because they involve some hyperanglicized feature. More can be found on these issues and the whole dictionary in a paper on the dictionary. Note that IPA transcriptions are omitted for lack of a standard HTML encoding of the symbols:

ad infinitum lat edinfi-NÁJtöm
aero- előtag, ld. a függelékben
Agincourt fr edzsinkór
Arthur árször  artúr
bake bék ~d békt
bath bász  besz; ~ed bászt
bathe béd ~ed bézd
both bósz
Budapest bjüdö-PESZT
can segédige ken, kön
can "konzervál" ken ~ned kend
capability képö-BIliti
chair cser ~ed cserd
change cséndzs ~d cséndzsd
charge csárdzs ~d csárdzsd
continue kön-TINjú ~d -úd
copper kopör
country kantri
Danubian de-NJÚbiön
decorate dekörét
decoration dekö-RÉsön
develop di-VElöp ~ed -öpt
devotion di-VÓsön
during djúring
err ör ~ed örd
Evans evönz  ívönsz
feature fícsör ~d -örd
gaol dzsél
Gibraltar dzsi-BRÓLtör
graduate fn, mn gredjuöt
graduate ige gredjuét
Hamlet hemlöt  hamlet
house hausz
Hungary hangöri  hangeri
jeans dzsínz  dzsínsz
Johnson dzsonszön  dzsonzon
joule dzsúl
laugh láf  lef; ~ed láft
lead "vezet" líd
lead "ólom" led
led led
London landön  london
lunch lancs ~ed lancst  löncs
Macbeth mök-BESZ  makbet, mahbet
major médzsör
many meni
Michelangelo májköl-ENdzsöló
Möbius mőbiösz
more mór
much macs
Newark általában njúörk  núörk
Newark hn Delaware njúárk  núárk
optical character recognition optiköl KEriktör rekögnisön
Papua pepjua
patron saint pétrön SZÉNT
Pontius pontiösz  páncsösz
psychiatry száj-KÁJötri
psychoanalytic szájkóenö-LItik
psychoanalysis szájkóö-NEliszisz
read jelen ríd
read múlt red
Reading hn reding
Rolls Royce rólz-ROJSZ  rojszrojsz
series szíríz
serious szíriösz
smoke szmók ~ed szmókt
soixante-neuf fr szvveszant-NŐF  szvászánt-NÖRF
story sztóri  sztori
sulphuric acid szalfjúrik Eszid
sure súr
Thackeray szeköri  szeköré
tomato tö-MÁtó  -MÉtó
varied verid
variety vö-RÁJöti
vary veri ~ied -id
vulture valcsör
Warsaw vorszó
wash vas ~ed vast
Worcester vusztör  vorcseszter, vör-
word processor vördprószeször  vördprocesszor
Wordsworth vördzvörsz
working class vörking KLÁSZ
work-to-rule vörktu-RÚL