How to pronounce stairs in British English
“stairs” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to stairs the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “stairs” in: all accents · American English (410 clips)
“stairs” in real sentences — British speakers
126 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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carrying it rather than stairs
UK Parliament
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a lift instead of using stairs, because I could not get up the stairs quickly to
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “stairs”
Words one sound away from stairs — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “stairs”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of stairs. 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.