How to pronounce borough in British English
“borough” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to borough the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “borough” in: all accents · American English (143 clips)
“borough” in real sentences — British speakers
210 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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need to introduce lockdown procedures that he does so on a borough by borough basis are
UK Parliament
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Woking Borough Council; Birmingham Council; and, most recently, Nottingham City Council, again.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “borough”
Words one sound away from borough — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “borough”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of borough. 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.