How to pronounce pay
Listen to pay in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“pay” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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income through pay and will pay pay the tax that they need to pay.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 67:20 · hear it here
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sector pay freeze and pay cap.
UK Parliament · watch from 45:59 · hear it here
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pay consumers willingness to pay in generalists is correlated with their ability to pay
FTC · watch from 34:16 · hear it here
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can't pay" or "I won't pay."
Census Bureau · watch from 40:31 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pay. 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.