How to pronounce afoot
Listen to afoot in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“afoot” in real sentences
72 clips in the index · 15 American · 15 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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afoot?” Berbey: “What’s afoot?” Longoria: Wait.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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Clearly, some magic is afoot.
Stonetop · hear it here
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no reform ambitious uh, reform initiatives afoot.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
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run statewide or or or something else afoot.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of afoot. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.