I'm wondering what people's suggestions are on pronunciation guides, both for sources and for guidelines. That's one of the few things I haven't seen someone write pages on. In my opinion, in a perfect tournament, the following would include pronunciation guides: 1) Non-english proper names and phrases, including those that have made it into regular use in english. 2) English proper names pronounced differently from the phonetic (e.g. Charles Peirce) 3) Scientific names that are pronounced non-intuitively (e.g. stoichiometry) 4) English words not pronouced phonetically that are a) frequently misprounced OR b) extremely rare I also think, however, that as a reader, I would prefer the pronunciation guide be _after_ the question, preferably in italics. This way, I could look through the packet beforehand and see if there were any words that I might have trouble pronuncing--and if I had problems during the reading, I wouldn't have to switch pages to find them. I find pronunciation guides kind of annoying when I'm reading around them. The problem I've had when writing and editing packets is that sometimes I can't figure out how to pronounce something, but yet I don't want to cut or edit the question out for that reason only. What I admit to having done is just to make up a best-guess pronunciation based on my knowledge of the language, which of course is FAR from the best thing to do. But what do others do?
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