Henry Sweet

Henry Sweet was a British philologist and phonetician in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his studies of language sounds and pronunciation. He contributed to understanding how words are spoken and helped develop phonetic transcription systems, which show how words sound. Sweet also influenced the development of speech training and language teaching. His work was foundational in the fields of linguistics and phonetics, and he was an important figure in documenting and analyzing the sounds of English and other languages.