How to pronounce ness
Listen to ness 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.
“ness” in real sentences
462 clips in the index · 47 American · 182 British · 5 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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500 acres at Loch Ness, which includes some of the solum of Loch Ness.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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They look like Eliot Ness.
The White House · hear it here
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tomorrow I'm a total mutant even that kind of outcast Ness fringe Ness is I
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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Imagine if Loch Ness dried up.
TED · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ness. 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.