How to pronounce platypus
Listen to platypus 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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“platypus” in real sentences
81 clips in the index · 18 American · 1 British · 7 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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including platypus, feed on.
DCCEEW · hear it here
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ear from a duck-billed platypus.
NIH · hear it here
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and lastly number six what is the duckbill platypus is the duck-billed platypus a mammal a
The Royal Society · hear it here
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Things like the platypus and the echidna.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of platypus. 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.