How to pronounce dum
Listen to dum 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.
“dum” in real sentences
103 clips in the index · 13 American · 21 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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[music] [dum dum] [music] [deedle dum dum] [music] [deedle dum dum] [music] [deedle dum dum] There
National Archives · hear it here
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Now I've got dum dum dum wah.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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It was a form of torture to make these women play dum dum dum dum to
British Library · hear it here
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Dum suori renum and dum fium and borium copium liori and hassium rium organis
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of dum. 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.