How to pronounce hours in American English
“hours” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to hours the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“hours” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Seven hours, over seven hours.
NASA
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16 hours -- or not even 16 hours.
The Obama White House
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Going from 8 hours to 17 hours.
NSF
Words that sound like “hours”
Words one sound away from hours — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “hours”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hours. 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.