After a dictionary has been successfully opened, you will see the editing window. On the left is a list of dictionary entries. Click on one to see its phonemic representation in the lower text box on the right. Click on the “Speak” button to hear it spoken using the current voice.
See the help item ‘Adding new entries’ for details on creating dictionary entries.
If you have the Drag Manager installed or are running under System 7.5 (in which it is permanently available), then you can use Drag-and-Drop to move dictionary items around in the list, to copy them to another window, or to drag them to the trash. Hold down the Option key when you release a drag to copy items in the same list. Dragging a number of entries to the Finder will create a text clipping. Dragging this into another application will simply insert the names of the entries, separated by returns, as text. Dragging this back into the list box in a DictionaryEdit window will insert the entries, with their associated phonemes. The text boxes, and the text window that appears if you open a text file, can accept drags (as long as they contain text information), but you cannot drag from them.
