How to pronounce rail
Listen to rail in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“rail” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 679 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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Network Rail and Scottish Rail Holdings.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 143:34 · hear it here
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became larger the red rail represents the rail that was inserted the replacement rail had
NTSB · watch from 0:51 · hear it here
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Girder rail, which is the rail the street cars and light rail run on, is not
NIST · watch from 8:59 · hear it here
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way that rail does and yet rail you know because rail is so much more expensive
UK Parliament · watch from 27:18 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rail. 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.