How to pronounce colon in American English
“colon” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to colon the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “colon” in: all accents · British English (41 clips)
“colon” in real sentences — American speakers
189 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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So imagine if you have a colon cancer, you take out, you know, piece of colon,
NSF
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Colon cancer prevention in the neighborhood will offer colon cancer screening to the people of our
The Obama White House
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My name is Daniel Colon-Ramos.
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Words that sound like “colon”
Words one sound away from colon — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of colon. 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.