How to pronounce ladies
Listen to ladies in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“ladies” in real sentences
831 clips in the index · 454 American · 377 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
US National Archives · watch from 0:01 · hear it here
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chairman ladies and gentlemen
NTSB · watch from 34:55 · hear it here
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account of a disturbance in the ladies gallery where two ladies had chained themselves
UK Parliament · watch from 23:33 · hear it here
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Ladies and gentlemen, our team.
Dept of Justice · watch from 45:49 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ladies. 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.