How to pronounce taps in British English
“taps” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to taps the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “taps” in: all accents · American English (126 clips)
“taps” in real sentences — British speakers
99 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Sea taps overnight—as some mischaracterise it—but turning on new taps.
The Scottish Parliament
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Scottish Labour is absolutely not turning the taps aff now.
The Scottish Parliament
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we turn the spending taps back on have been proved comprehensively wrong.
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “taps”
Words one sound away from taps — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “taps”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of taps. 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.