Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with lurch below are plain text.

How to pronounce lurch in British English

“lurch” pronunciation by British speakers

Listen to lurch the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“lurch” in real sentences — British speakers

52 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. the lurch as rates spiral control.

    The Scottish Parliament

  2. and so I hope this is a lurch forward where we can have and I know

    UK Parliament

Words that sound like “lurch”

Words one sound away from lurch — 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 lurch. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with L →