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The key for decoding the pronounciation rules is usually presented
as part of the introductory pages of the book. In an ordinary dictionary,
the key assumes that the person who is using it is a person who is currently capable
of reading the inscriptions that the words are presently written in, and
is also practiced at enunciating several simple words as they
are pronounced in the language that is being surveyed in this particular
dictionary. That is, to use the dictionary with relative ease, the reader
ought to be able to recognize the lexical
structure of the language so
that, while perusing a survey of its lexicon,
one's sounding out the
particular pronounciation rule which follows a specific word, produces a
sound pattern that is a word used in the language which the dictionary covers.
Even though it may be that a word list combined with a technique
(or algorithm) to properly pronounce any one of the words that is found on the
list could be said to constitute a "dictionary," dictionaries are
organized to do other forms of work as well. The most obvious sequence
is to move to the set of definitions that are positioned in an ordered
format such that all of the definitions in the set are to be naturally
associated with the word (or phrase) that they follow.
Each definition provided in this set is to be evaluated as an
equivalence so that if the reader knows how the word is graphically
inscribed and has paid attention to the pronounciation key, the
sound pattern that constitutes the word may now be refered to (as
literally) "in other words." The numbered definitions
which are presented as showing an equivalence to the word, each designates
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