How to pronounce wires in British English
“wires” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to wires the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “wires” in: all accents · American English (425 clips)
“wires” in real sentences — British speakers
68 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And they were cutting telegraph wires.
UK Parliament
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Clearly, wires have got crossed somewhere.
The Scottish Parliament
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We need more wires and cables, and putting them in can have a disruptive impact.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “wires”
Words one sound away from wires — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “wires”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of wires. 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.