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The year 1917 was a landmark in many ways.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

Jones had made an earlier notable attempt at a pronunciation dictionary but it was now that he produced the first edition of his famous English Pronouncing Dictionary, a work which in revised form is still in print.

It was here that the cardinal vowel diagram made a first appearance.

A similar work for US English was published in 1944 by Kenyon and Knott.