How to pronounce eights
Listen to eights 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.
“eights” in real sentences
50 clips in the index · 13 American · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Looks like we've got some seven (ft/sec) (and) eights (ft/sec) a few eights (ft/sec velocities) intermingled
USGS · hear it here
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the twos and three sticking out their eights yeah
The House Of Urban Lounge Podcast · hear it here
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eights we add one to that it becomes all zeros
Lewis Baumstark · hear it here
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So I could see lots of eights as well pairing.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of eights. 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.