How to pronounce erectus
Listen to erectus 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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“erectus” in real sentences
13 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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a straight line of descent with a gaster begetting erectus erectus begetting the neanderthals and the
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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But was Homo erectus genuinely human?
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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for Homo erectus in Africa but nowhere else.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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But in other ways it resembled fossils of Homo erectus from China.
CrashCourse · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of erectus. 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.