How to pronounce conventions
Listen to conventions 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.
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“conventions” in real sentences
890 clips in the index · 100 American · 239 British · 32 Australian · 6 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Sectary state conventions
UK Parliament · hear it here
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other conventions ourselves.
Andreas Mueller · hear it here
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they are conventions of orthography and conventions of certain semantic distinctions um
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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conventions of classical music.
TED-Ed · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of conventions. 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.