How to pronounce pencil
Listen to pencil 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.
“pencil” in real sentences
796 clips in the index · 219 American · 71 British · 9 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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- Pen or pencil? - Pencil.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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Pencil like an engineering pencil.
British Library · hear it here
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In the case of the pencil, the width of the pencil.
USGS · hear it here
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pencil wants to fall over.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pencil. 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.