Common Acronyms

How about SAMPA?

I have added it, but there's a technical issue with the config. Will get it sorted. ;-)

AAVE - African American Vernacular English.
BEV, BVE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English

Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary? or, at least the EPD?

Done :up:

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Originally Posted by Tdol

Now if you type BrE, AmE, ESL, TEFL, ESOL, etc, you see that there's a dotted underline and if you put the mouse over the word, you can see the phrase in full. Please make suggestion for other teaching/learning acronyms used commonly here.

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The problem that now arises is that the tablets/smartphones that many people use these days don't use a mouse, so the full title doesn't appear alongside.
Any chance of displaying a copy of the listing, so that acronyms can be identified?

Regards
R21

'AAE' => 'African American English'
'AAVE' => 'African American Vernacular English'
'AHD' => 'American Heritage Dictionary'
'AmE' => 'American English'
'AusE' => 'Australian English'
'BEV' => 'Black English Vernacular'
'BNC' => 'British National Corpus'
'BrE' => 'British English'
'BTW' => 'By The Way'
'BVE' => 'Black Vernacular English'
'CAE' => 'Certificate of Advanced English'
'CELTA' => 'Certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages'
'CEPD' => 'Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary'
'COCA' => 'Corpus of Contemporary American English'
'CPE' => 'Certificate of Proficiency in English'
'EFL' => 'English as a Foreign Language'
'ELT' => 'English Language Teaching'
'ESL' => 'English as a Second Language'
'ESOL' => 'English for Speakers of Other Languages'
'ESP' => 'English for Specific Purposes'
'FCE' => 'First Certificate in English'
'IELTS' => 'International English Language Testing System'
'IMO' => 'In My Opinion'
'IndE' => 'Indian English'
'IPA' => 'International Phonetic Alphabet'
'LDOCE' => 'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English'
'LPD' => 'Longman Pronunciation Dictionary'
'MW' => 'Merriam-Webster Dictionary'
'NZE' => 'New Zealand English'
'OALD' => 'Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary'
'OED' => 'Oxford English Dictionary'
'RP' => 'Received Pronunciation'
'SAMPA' => 'Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet'
'SOED' => 'Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'
'TEFL' => 'Teaching English as a Foreign Language'
'TESL' => 'Teaching English as a Second Language'
'TESOL' => 'Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages'
'TOEFL' => 'Test of English as a Foreign Language'
'TOEIC' => 'Test of English for International Communication'

Could I suggest adding NESB, Non-English-Speaking Background?

And could I put another plug in for EPD (or CPD), the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary?

Yes, but not just yet- I cannot save new ones- some folder permissions were changed. I hope to be able to save them soon. They were changed when trying to see what was causing the malware warnings, so I will wait for higher powers to give the go-ahead. :up:

Reminder to self- add NNES