Without knowing much about this site, they might merely be missing a few words: “traditional IPA transcription of English” vs “modern IPA transcription of English”. I know that the way English is often transcribed is rather out-of-date (how many people retain a genuine [ʌ]?), and people regularly attempt to create more accurate transcriptions, e.g. Geoff Lindsey’s.jal wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:56 pm Not sure whether this is the right thread, but anyway. I recently encountered a website (https://youglish.com/) that, in its pronunciation description, uses bith "traditional IPA" and something called "modern IPA". I've never heard of the latter, and it looks decidedly odd. So does anyone know whether this is an actual thing, or just something that website invented?
But the use of the acute accent for stress doesn’t look at all IPA-like to me, so… really, I don’t know.