How to pronounce fifties

Listen to fifties 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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“fifties” in real sentences

59 clips in the index · 20 American · 10 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. Nineteen fifties and was never found again.

    British Library · hear it here

  2. Jim Woodruff Dam was closed up in the late fifties,

    US Fish & Wildlife Service · hear it here

  3. but he didn’t share his ideas until he was in his fifties.

    CrashCourse · hear it here

  4. the seven generations that we invested in in say the eighteen fifties or earlier in

    Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) · hear it here

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of fifties. 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.

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