Mirko Thiessen wrote:
It appears to me, that a guide how to pronounce a word
would rather belong
to the Wiktionary project than to Wikipedia. In Wiktionary the
pronunciation appears to be a regular paragraph, while it is in Wikipedia
in one per thousand articles. What are your opinions about this?
We only need pronunciations in Wikipedia for strange words,
typically for names (which won't appear in Wiktionary!).
A SAMPA (or whatever we use) phonemic transcription should be fine,
along with a link to [[SAMPA Chart]] (or whatever we use).
For tricky Egnglish words (but not foreign names in general),
we could also use a "foh-NETT-ik" spelling if it helps.
But the following is unnecessarily long, and as you note, less precise:
In the above example Arpingstone added a sentence to
the Bremen article:
"The 'Bre' of Bremen rhymes with 'clay'."
-- Toby