How to pronounce scrub in American English
“scrub” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to scrub the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “scrub” in: all accents · British English (29 clips)
“scrub” in real sentences — American speakers
222 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Rub your hands together to make a lather and scrub them well; be sure to scrub
FEMA
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administration is going through a scrub.
The Obama White House
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Another example is a Island Scrub.
US Fish & Wildlife Service
Words that sound like “scrub”
Words one sound away from scrub — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “scrub”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of scrub. 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.