我先总结两句:
- K.K. 是 IPA 的变体,其祖先 John Samuel Kenyon , Thomas Albert Knott 的 A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English 这本词典,只在 1944 年出版了一次,然后就几乎绝版了,美国人自己都不用。
- 反观 Daniel Jones 的 English Pronouncing Dictionary ,已经出到第 18 版了。
- K.K. 早晚会被彻底淘汰掉的。
This is the symbol used in the Kenyon-Knott system, still in use among American dialectologists and speech people (who just call this notation “IPA”), and also for EFL in Taiwan (but as far as I know, virtually only in Taiwan).