How to pronounce twain
Listen to twain 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.
“twain” in real sentences
247 clips in the index · 67 American · 11 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Mark Twain wrote about it.
How To Academy · hear it here
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so now let us meet Mark Twain good morning my name is not Mark Twain my
National Archives · hear it here
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of what's going on within them and Mark Twain Mark Twain's tormented by the fact that
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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This has been ascribed to Mark Twain.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of twain. 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.