How to pronounce swell in British English
“swell” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to swell the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “swell” in: all accents · American English (146 clips)
“swell” in real sentences — British speakers
38 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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There is a whole swell of educated, ambitious, um, smart young people in
The Scottish Parliament
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with the chartists more than any of them out of a massive ground swell of public
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “swell”
Words one sound away from swell — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “swell”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of swell. 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.