How to pronounce spade in British English
“spade” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to spade the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “spade” in: all accents
“spade” in real sentences — British speakers
23 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Um just to echo on your point and just to call a spade a spade.
The Scottish Parliament
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A digital platform—or to call a spade a spade, a website—is like an offer from the
The Scottish Parliament
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She says imagine that they are British soldiers under your spade, that kind of thing.
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “spade”
Words one sound away from spade — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “spade”
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.