Kuzmina R.V.

The article, based on the material of the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary (OED), presents the peculiarities of semantics, pronunciation, etymology of New Zealand words included in this dictionary in March 2023. Some features of the New Zealand pronunciation representation system are analyzed. The main attention is paid to the comparison of the basic specificities of registering in the OED of variant characteristics of English vowels and consonants in British, American and New Zealand English.

The article analyzes the main features of registering variant characteristics of English vowels and consonants, as well as of the suprasegmental means in the 3rd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary Online. A new notation for indicating pronunciation in British and American English is considered in detail and, according to the phonetic editors of the dictionary, transformational phenomena in the articulation of a number of phonemes are also presented.

The article, based on the material of three editions of the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, examines some evolutionary features of the pronunciation representation system in this general dictionary, which in recent years has gained extraordinary popularity after publishing of the online edition. The traditional and new transcription systems used in various editions of the dictionary are discussed in

The main goal of the article is to share the experience of using the resources of the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to the students of chemistry, this problem being important in the context of distant learning. In practical terms, research projects carried out on the OED material allow students to obtain systematic data on the etymology, pronunciation, semantics of professionally-oriented terms, homonyms, polysemantic words and phraseological units.

A study of homonymy conducted for more than ten years based on the English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD, 1‑18 ed., 1917‑2012) and Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (LPD, 1‑3 ed., 1990‑2008), allowed us to establish the frequency of phonetic (and graphic) variants in various groups of homonyms (homographs, homophones, phonetic-graphic homonyms, homonymic proper names, homonymic abbreviations), to determine the general and specific approaches of D. Jones and J. Wells to the problems of registering pronunciation variants and variability, and in particular, the phenomenon of homonymy.