A word's pronunciation is now one line. One transcription, the most standard way to say it, written once in clean IPA.
It used to sprawl. A single headword could arrive wearing two or three accents at once, a row of slashes and commas with regional variants stacked on top. Before you could read how to say the word, you had to work out which of them was yours.
Take schedule. Americans say SKED-jool, the British say SHED-yool. An entry that prints both just hands you the sorting. Now we show the neutral, broadly understood form and leave it at that. The rest are still true, we just keep them out of the way.
Accents matter, and now and then you want the regional detail on purpose. When you do, send a note through the contact form and we'll add it.
The page reads cleaner and you trust it faster. One word, one way to say it.
Meet a word whose spelling picks a fight with its sound: colonel.