How to pronounce paraffin
Listen to paraffin 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.
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“paraffin” in real sentences
70 clips in the index · 19 American · 12 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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two paraffin heaters and so she'd come home with these big bottles of paraffin but paraffin
British Library · hear it here
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Next stage paraffin lamp doing the same light chimney for the paraffin lamp.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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of paraffin-embedded, formalin-fixed tissue.
NIH · hear it here
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and an application of paraffin wax.
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of paraffin. 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.