How to pronounce delays
Listen to delays in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“delays” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 437 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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costly maintenance delays.
GAO · watch from 0:45 · hear it here
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to implementation delays.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 57:41 · hear it here
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in emergency care delays.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 20:08 · hear it here
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experience any technical delays.
Census Bureau · watch from 0:51 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of delays. 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.