How to pronounce canny
Listen to canny 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.
“canny” in real sentences
75 clips in the index · 5 American · 28 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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She was a canny investor.
British Library · hear it here
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more moderate response through our canny planning.
US National Archives · hear it here
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it's extraordinarily canny in engineering terms.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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>> sons say he's a canny John's collector.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of canny. 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.