Asbo, bird flu, Botox, chav, latte, nanobot.Īmong words beginning fa-, for instance, you will now also find faddy,įade-in, fag-hag, fairness, fair-to-middling, fakie, falling-off, falling-out, fan-assisted, fanciable, fancy-dress, Fannie Mae, fantasist, farthermost, fat-free, fault-tolerant, fava.Īs in previous editions, non-English words come with the foreign-language phonetics as well as an appropriate anglicization: among the new additions are Abu Ghraib, al Qaeda, haram, niqab, and Sharm-el-Sheikh (Arabic), Ahmadinejad (Farsi), Benfica (Portuguese), Federer (German), gaijin and sudoku (Japanese), kimchi (Korean), mojito (Spanish), Putin (Russian), qi and Qingdao (Chinese), Sarkozy and Taizé (French), Terfel (Welsh), Tórshavn (Faroese). and thousands of other assorted new words, e.g.blogging, chatroom, digicam, eBay, Facebook, Google, podcast, Wikipedia, YouTube Athenry, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bussell, Cruyff, Ericsson, Obama, Rowling, Sentamu, Tehachapi, Titchmarsh, Verizon, Whampoa, Zellweger CD-ROM with the Longman Pronunciation Coach.The third edition continues the excellent tradition of the previous editions, but with extensive additions and improvements. Visit the Longman Dictionaries site, with three video clips of me talking about the new edition. With The Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM Longman Pronunciation Dictionary third edition, 2008
