Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with shortages below are plain text.
How to pronounce shortages in British English
“shortages” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to shortages the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “shortages” in: all accents · American English (779 clips)
“shortages” in real sentences — British speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
We have not just skill shortages but labour shortages.
The Scottish Parliament
-
shortages of oncology staff.
The Scottish Parliament
Other forms of “shortages”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shortages. 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.