How to pronounce phones
Listen to phones in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“phones” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 469 American · 935 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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mobile phones in schools.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 37:46 · hear it here
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Questions from the phones?
NIST · watch from 28:27 · hear it here
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that mobile phones are turned to silent? Will those using their phones on silent
UK Parliament · watch from 0:42 · hear it here
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this pandemic our phones become lifelines to others however those same phones are a
NTSB · watch from 42:38 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of phones. 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.