How to pronounce shaft in British English
“shaft” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to shaft the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “shaft” in: all accents · American English (97 clips)
“shaft” in real sentences — British speakers
39 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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weight shaft below the clock mechanism.
UK Parliament
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They're moving forward in Shaft Clyde that F is even further.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “shaft”
Words one sound away from shaft — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “shaft”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shaft. 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.