How to pronounce semicolon
Listen to semicolon 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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“semicolon” in real sentences
94 clips in the index · 4 American. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Put a semicolon here and a semicolon there.
freeCodeCamp.org · hear it here
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composition semicolon if you see E1 semicolon E2 you evaluate E1 and then you evaluate E2
Neelakantan Krishnaswami · hear it here
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take a semicolon, an em dash, a period?
Big Think · hear it here
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and then there's this special so underscore semicolon and what this specifies is
Jeremy Clark · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of semicolon. 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.