The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917.
[1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
John C. Wells has written of it "EPD has set the standard against which other dictionaries must inevitably be judged".
This format did not find favour and a German-British work was in any case not likely to do well at the time of the First World War.
At the time of the publication of the 16th edition, a CD-ROM disk (compatible with Windows but not with Apple computers) was produced which contains the full contents of the dictionary together with a recording of each headword, in British and American pronunciation.