Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7505764-20141219222848/@comment-3323804-20150422031305

The thing is though, pronunciations are difficult to define in just the phonetic alphabet. You have your long and short vowels, nasal or stop, rounded or unrounded, etc. There's a reason why dictionaries use additional lettering (often not naturally of the phonetic alphabet) and accents for pronunciation (e.g. "Parsimonious" - ˌpärsəˈmōnēəs). I think it would be best to avoid it since people are generally stubborn about their pronunciation anyways.