Abbreviations, Signs and References

employed on this website

ALD = Advanced Learner's Dictionary  See Hornby etc at 11.2  on  this website

CGP = Cruttenden's (revisions of) Gimson's  Pronunciation of English

CID = Cambridge International Dictionary

COD  Concise Oxford Dictionary

CPD = the JWL Concise Pronouncing Dictionary See §11.2 on this website

EAL = English as an Additional Language

EFL = English as a Foreign Language

ELT(J)= English Language Teaching (Journal)

EPD English Pronouncing Dictionary

GA = General American

GB = General British

HHS = Hanks & Hodges on Surnames

LDC  Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 

LPD = Longman Dictionary of Pronunciation Wells (1900 etc) 

MWO See Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

OBG Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation Olausson & Sangster 

ODP Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation  Upton etc below

OED See Murray etc below

RHD See Random etc below

TPS Transactions of the Philogical Society

WEB See Webster's etc below

Signs

Aside from universally known  symbols the  following signs are employed at various places on this site to indicate the currencies of particular pronunciations of words
˚ placed immediately after a  word's transcription  indicates that it is virtually the sole  pronunciation the word receives
˃ similarly placed indicates that it is the most frequently occurring pronunciation of the word it follows  but that there are others
˂ indicates that the pronunciation is not considered to be the most frequent one of the word in question

References to Publications

other than by JWL for which see Personal ie §10.2 on this website