I've written my share of applets but I've never really done very much in the
way of interacting with an applet via the HTML on the page containing the
applet. I'm hoping someone can suggest a way to accomplish what I want to
do.

I'm helping a friend who needs a Java applet for his website. He wants to
display a page containing a paragraph or two of English. Some of the words
in the paragraphs will be ones that people may not know how to pronounce so
he wants visitors to the page to be able to click on the word and have an
applet play a sound file that illustrates the proper pronunciation. So, if
the paragraph was "One of the most visited spots in London is the Leicester
Square, which is located some distance from Beaulieu Wood.", the person
clicking on "Leicester" would hear the applet say "Lester" and the person
clicking on "Beaulieu" would hear the applet say "Bewley".

I've already got code that will play the a sound file so I don't need help
with that. However, I'm not sure how to organize things so that I can have a
single occurrence of the applet on the page and make a click on a given word
in the paragraph invoke the playing of the proper audio file in the applet.

I realize that it would be simpler to make a separate instance of the applet
for each word that needs to be pronounced and I'm willing to do that if it
becomes necessary but I'm hoping someone can suggest an elegant way for the
applet to simply play the sound corresponding to the word clicked.

Any ideas how I can do what I want to do?