How to pronounce indies
Listen to indies 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.
“indies” in real sentences
255 clips in the index · 21 American · 42 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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plantations in the West Indies.
TED · hear it here
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Heritage alive sooko the music of Carnival is where East Indies meets the West Indies Carnival
British Library · hear it here
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1999 at the West Indies I've got dropped in the West Indies in 99 and TJ
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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from Britain, Ireland, or the British West Indies.
US National Archives · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of indies. 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.