A Universal System of Pronunciation Notation
Recently the Illinois State Teachers' Association, in a meeting at Springfield, Ill., passed the following resolution: “We petition these two societies of experts [the American Philological Association and the Modern Language Association] to take further action to secure the adoption among our ethnologists and lexicographers of a universal system of key notation for indicating pronunciation—a system which shall have for its basis a simple, thoroughly practical alphabet, adapted to common, every-day use, such as the alphabet of the American Philological Association seems to us to be.” This alphabet is that employed to designate pronunciation in the Standard Dictionary.