1. A method of generating a British English phonemic transcription from a word and an American English phonemic transcription of the word using a computer system: providing the word to a first computer program, the first computer program transforming the spelling of the word according to British English spelling conventions; providing the word to a second computer program, the second computer program for lexically transforming the word to a semantically equivalent word used in British English and marking the word when no semantic equivalent is found and when the semantic equivalent cannot be identified; and applying phoneme conversion rules with a third computer program to transform the American English phonemic transcription to the British English phonemic transcription.