How to pronounce jumbo in British English
“jumbo” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to jumbo the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “jumbo” in: all accents · American English (52 clips)
“jumbo” in real sentences — British speakers
32 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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In essence, we are talking about landing a jumbo jet on a stamp, but the jumbo
The Scottish Parliament
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That's two jumbo jets of crashes.
UK Parliament
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it is statistical mumbo-jumbo to say that there is a majority per capita.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “jumbo”
Words one sound away from jumbo — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of jumbo. 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.