How to pronounce posterity
Listen to posterity 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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“posterity” in real sentences
129 clips in the index · 35 American · 22 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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for posterity, Churchill included.
British Library · hear it here
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to fame glory and posterity
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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places are preserved for posterity.
National Park Service · hear it here
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So, Edward II, I think, is for for posterity for posterity has become a bit of
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of posterity. 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.