Further use of recordings might be made on the accompanying tape, to illustrate British English and American English pronunciation more fully. This is a valid suggestion, and indeed we will ensure that the tape will be more comrehensive in the next edition. The extensive cross-referencing interferes with the smooth reading of the book. This comment we will also consider very carefully when we come to revise the book.
Insufficient attention is paid to the differences between Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.
Although it is indeed true that Indonesia has borrowed many lexical items from Dutch, including derivational affixes, this has had little effect on the phonological system of the language. It is also true that Bahasa Malaysia has assimilated more consonants of Arabic origin than Bahasa Indonesia, but as these sounds only occur in loanwords, it did not seem worthwhile to go into greater detail about them in a phonetics book for English teachers. We have found a few errors in the book, which we will ensure get corrected when the book is reprinted.