How to pronounce billion
Listen to billion in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“billion” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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£6 billion to £28 billion.
UK Parliament · watch from 19:06 · hear it here
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billion and $700 billion in total assets.
Federal Reserve · watch from 33:18 · hear it here
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261 billion, and Japan, at 234 billion.
CDC · watch from 4:59 · hear it here
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£1.8 billion to £3.9 billion.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 72:22 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of billion. 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.