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Please look through Appendix:English pronunciation before "correcting" more pronunciations. First of all, we tend toward a more phonemic approach, so we don't bother showing things like the aspiration on voiceless consonants or the diphthongization of most vowels. Secondly, our rhymes are based on the (UK) pronunciation of the person who set them up, so making the rhymes conform to any other standard can really mess things up.
It may be arbitrary or even wrong, but that's how we have it in massive numbers of entries- so changing a few here and there just puts them out of synch with all the rest. I hated to revert all of your edits, since you meant well and you obviously know something on the subject- but we can't have mutually-exclusive standards fighting each other in the entries
I don't do much with pronunciation myself, so I may not be much help if you have questions. User:Angr would probably be the best person to talk to.
Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 06:55, 21 November 2014 (UTC)