How to pronounce folly in American English
“folly” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to folly the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “folly” in: all accents · British English (174 clips)
“folly” in real sentences — American speakers
64 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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It seems like terrible folly.
The Obama White House
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But now we're beginning to see the folly of that approach.
NIST
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These fuels treatment proved to work, so it would be, folly of us to just abandon
US Forest Service
Words that sound like “folly”
Words one sound away from folly — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “folly”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of folly. 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.