Help talk:IPA/English/FAQ
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|q=The IPA should be specific to a particular national standard, and the national pronunciations should be listed separately.
|a=Listing multiple national pronunciations after every Wikipedia entry word quickly becomes unwieldy, and listing only one leads to accusations of bias. Therefore, we use a system that aims at being pan-dialectal. Of course, if a particular dialect or local pronunciation is relevant to the topic, it may be listed in addition to the wider pronunciation, using {{tlx|IPA|und{{!}}...}} or {{tlx|IPA|2=en{{!}}...{{!}}generic=yes}}.
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|q=The use of {{IPA|/r/}} for the rhotic consonant is inaccurate. It should be {{IPA|/ɹ/}} instead.
|a=The English rhotic is pronounced in a wide variety of ways in accents of English around the world, and the goal of our diaphonemic system is to cover as many of them as possible. Moreover, where there is no phonological contrast to possibly cause confusion, using a more typographically recognizable letter for a sound represented by another symbol in the narrow IPA is totally within the confines of the IPA's principles (IPA Handbook, pp. 27–28). In fact, {{IPA|/r/}} is arguably the more traditional IPA notation; not only is it used by most if not all dictionaries, but also in Le Maître Phonétique, the predecessor to the Journal of the IPA, which was written entirely in phonetic transcription, {{angbr IPA|r}} was the norm for the English rhotic.
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