How to pronounce yankee
Listen to yankee 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.
“yankee” in real sentences
152 clips in the index · 41 American · 2 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Yankee when he was behind the Yankee lines that makes sense whether he was a spy
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture · hear it here
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
National Archives · hear it here
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And my husband just checks the Yankee score.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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to Texas, you should probably put away the Yankee.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of yankee. 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.