How to pronounce beacons
Listen to beacons 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.
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“beacons” in real sentences
172 clips in the index · 92 American · 24 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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ACR Electronics manufactures emergency beacons.
NIST · hear it here
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and I would note these are not real beacons these are this dummy beacons with the
FAA · hear it here
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or beacons rather like the beacons that a yacht or an aircraft uses to guide it
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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beacons the rectangular rapid slashing beacons and even roundabouts and it's something that we've been focusing
NTSB · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of beacons. 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.