[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Suggestion: Pronunciation on all names

[John Lee]

On Jan 18, 2008 6:02 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> A suggestion from a reader, emailed to me:
>
> > I'm not press, but this seemed the only access to the Wikipedes. (Mind you,
> > I am a former newspaper columnist.)
> > As a lexicographer, I admire Wikipedia, and offer one suggestion. Ask your
> > contributors to indicate pronunciation where needed.
> > For instance, I had to look up an actress with the first name of "Cote." Is
> > it [COAT]? [ko-TAY]? [KO-tay]?
>
>
> Quite a few of our articles on people include the pronunciation, but
> it's far from universal. Would anyone be interested in a drive to fill
> out pronunciations? (What groups of Wikipedians are fans of this
> stuff?) Adding a field in the infoboxes might help too.

On a related note, it would be helpful if we, you know, used a
pronunciation guide that makes sense to most English-speaking people.
The IPA thing is nonsense, and I have never been able to glean more
than bits of redundant pronunciation information from it.

Johnleemk