How To Pronounce Postpone

In British English, postpone is pronounced /pəˈspəʊn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pəˈspəʊ̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /poʊˈspoʊn/.

Postpone has two syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.