The pronunciations given are those in use among educated urban speakers of standard English in Singapore and Malaysia. While avoiding strongly regionally or socially marked forms, the pronunciations are intended to reflect some of the features common to the forms of English spoken in both Singapore and Malaysia, although compromises have necessarily been made. The keywords given in this key are to be understood as pronounced in such speech.
All words indicated as being associated with Singapore and/or Malaysia are also given British and American pronunciations alongside the Singapore & Malaysian pronunciation(s). Where a word is associated with an additional part of the English-speaking world, further pronunciations in the appropriate global variety of English are also given.