How To Pronounce Mercury

In British English, Mercury is pronounced /ˈmɜː.kjə.ri/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈmɜːʴ.kj̥ə.ri]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈmɜːr.kjə.ri/.

Mercury has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.