How to pronounce “plaintive” in English

Meanwhile, as I say, Uncle James spent something like seven or eight years looking for her.He wrote a rather plaintive narrative about it in the early 1840s, where he cast himself as one of the sort ofclassic figures from the American West, the man who knows Indians.

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