How to pronounce poetry in British English
“poetry” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to poetry the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “poetry” in: all accents · American English (422 clips)
“poetry” in real sentences — British speakers
106 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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of life.” “The Kind of Poetry I Want”, MacDiarmid proclaimed, is “a poetry that stands for
The Scottish Parliament
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He puts away his Persian poetry, he starts to read Shakespeare.
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “poetry”
Words one sound away from poetry — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of poetry. 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.