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How to pronounce slashes

“slashes” pronunciation in American and British English

Listen to slashes 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.

“slashes” in real sentences

144 clips in the index · 9 American · 2 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. You just change this forward slashes into backward slashes.

    Murugan Pattusamy

  2. calling forward slashes backslashes and backslashes forward slashes the person if they are a technophile you're

    Computer Science E-1

  3. Those slashes indicate that it’s a regex, and whatever's inside those slashes is like a test

    Tom Scott

  4. slashes using adhesive and extra canvas backing.

    TED-Ed

Words that sound like “slashes”

Words one sound away from slashes — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “slashes”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of slashes. 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.

Nearby words

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