Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with waxwork below are plain text.
How to pronounce waxwork
“waxwork” pronunciation in real English speech
Listen to waxwork 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.
“waxwork” in real sentences
16 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
Uh when was your waxwork first included in Madame Tussauds?
Would I Lie To You?
-
circuses, fairgrounds, showmen, Punch and Judy, performers, waxwork museums, kind
British Library
-
waxwork for the Madame Tussauds thing in the UK, they have a thing where they look
WIRED
-
corner a a a waxwork of uh Queen Victoria um she added a little something to
Intelligence Squared
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of waxwork. 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.