How to pronounce blues
Listen to blues 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.
“blues” in real sentences
596 clips in the index · 105 American · 15 British · 91 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And so, all those great American blues singers, the Delta blues singers, the Chicago blues singers
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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The lighter blues and darker blues would be the finer particles.
USGS · hear it here
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year and then you see the blues, the blues are this year.
NIST · hear it here
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Blacks developed the blues.
60 Minutes · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of blues. 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.