Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with elbow below are plain text.
How to pronounce elbow in British English
“elbow” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to elbow the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “elbow” in: all accents · American English (156 clips)
“elbow” in real sentences — British speakers
27 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
the world can can elbow their way into that space.
The Scottish Parliament
-
the train when the woman sitting next to her casually lent her elbow on her flimsily
UK Parliament
-
your elbow um now I actually like our formal address and a certain amount of ceremony
UK Parliament
Other forms of “elbow”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of elbow. 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.