How to pronounce files
Listen to files in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“files” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 147 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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CED’s are limited to PDFs, word processor files, presentation files, and spreadsheet files.
Dept of Justice · watch from 33:02 · hear it here
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CT Files for the Colored Troops Division; EB Files for Enlisted Branch Office; VS Files for
US National Archives · watch from 11:58 · hear it here
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in the OD files, versus the WEC files, they have different values.
Census Bureau · watch from 32:43 · hear it here
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You will need to be looking out uh uh documents, files, historic files.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 122:17 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of files. 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.