How to pronounce shelves in British English
“shelves” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to shelves the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “shelves” in: all accents · American English (259 clips)
“shelves” in real sentences — British speakers
283 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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empty supermarket shelves.
The Scottish Parliament
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When we're actually installing stones in the wall, we often build, sort of, shelves, timber shelves
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “shelves”
Words one sound away from shelves — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “shelves”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shelves. 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.