How to pronounce spade
Listen to spade 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.
“spade” in real sentences
120 clips in the index · 6 American · 21 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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So, let's call spade a spade.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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And I let's call a spade a spade.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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Um just to echo on your point and just to call a spade a spade.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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to the American people and we just got a call a spade a spade call it
AmericanVoice · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of spade. 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.