How to pronounce birds
Listen to birds in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“birds” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 696 American · 566 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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very likely that the birds, the early birds and even those dinosaur related birds, probably must
NIST · watch from 66:38 · hear it here
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Birds build nest because well, birds build nest because they a
National Park Service · watch from 0:53 · hear it here
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The birds can't get in to lay eggs, the smaller birds.
FAA · watch from 24:15 · hear it here
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that encourages the birds.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 11:11 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of birds. 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.