How to pronounce pirates
Listen to pirates 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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“pirates” in real sentences
344 clips in the index · 30 American · 12 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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specific in common they're all badass in pirates pirates like the Golden Age pirates pirates like
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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against pirates in Somalia.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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pirates in the Caribbean.
EMPAC | Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer · hear it here
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You know, the Barbary pirates.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pirates. 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.