How to pronounce auld
Listen to auld 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.
“auld” in real sentences
14 clips in the index · 50 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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tonight, “Auld Lang Syne”.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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child, the wife of one of his enslavers, Sophia Auld, began teaching him the alphabet and
CrashCourse · hear it here
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Winnie said that, if the 1707 Parliament’s demise had been “the end of an auld sang”,
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of auld. 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.