How to pronounce gig
Listen to gig 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.
“gig” in real sentences
921 clips in the index · 172 American · 96 British · 18 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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A Saturday night gig paid maybe $20 a a gig.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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You know, you get called for a gig, you play the gig.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
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Congratulations on your new gig.
State Department · hear it here
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the, the traditional gig work.
Census Bureau · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of gig. 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.