How to pronounce borough in American English
“borough” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to borough the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “borough” in: all accents · British English (210 clips)
“borough” in real sentences — American speakers
143 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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city or town or village or borough.
Census Bureau
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Hailing from the borough, Brooklyn, New York.
The Obama White House
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top five initiative, along with help from the city and borough of Yakutat.
US Fish & Wildlife Service
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.