John Wells is Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. His interests centre on the phonetic and phonological description of languages but also extend to lexicography and language teaching. For seven years he wrote a daily phonetic blog. Based in Britain at UCL throughout his career, he has lectured in many countries around the world.
Part I. Words, Names, People and Places: 1. Unusual words
2. Food and drink words
3. Interesting words
4. Names
5. People
6. Places
7. Abroad
8. Home from abroad
Part II. Sounds and Letters: 9. Allophones
10. Phonetic processes
11. Spelling
12. Transcription
Part III. Applied Phonetics: 13. Classification
14. EFL
15. Accents
16. Lexical stress
17. Connected speech
18. Texts in transcription
Part IV. Roundup: 19. Rhetoric
20. Language mosaic
21. Postscript.
