How To Pronounce Swift
swift
UK
Phonemic
/swɪft/
Phonetic
[sʷwɪft̚]
US
Phonemic
/swɪft/
In British English, swift is pronounced /swɪft/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [sʷwɪft̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /swɪft/.
Swift has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.
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.
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