How to pronounce icons
Listen to icons 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.
“icons” in real sentences
459 clips in the index · 224 American · 20 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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celebrities, cultural icons.
TED · hear it here
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might call cultural icons.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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You know, anchors were icons.
CBC News · hear it here
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you playing with some of the icons and you being in that class ofc icons as
Brian Pace a.k.a The Pace Report · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of icons. 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.