--- title: "How to pronounce \"small print\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"small print\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/vIbLQQ1i56Y/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/small-print" --- # How to pronounce "small print" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/smællprɪnt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **smal·lprint** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "small print" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "never I never meditated. Then I get to a monastery, I become a monk and read the small print. You know, you got to meditate. And I hated it. I really really hated it. And I thought, oh, what am I going to do? I really don't enjoy this at all. I find it an enormous struggle. So I struggled a lot with meditation in those early days, days, weeks, months even. Why did you hate it?" - **Watch at 29:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbLQQ1i56Y&t=1778s) ### Example 2 > "rises because she won't. And she almost ruled out tax rises, but then did put up national insurance. Although they then claimed if you hadn't looked at the small print, well more fool you. Um, see where that got them into politically. I mean, I know this isn't really about me, but Well, Patty, everything's really about I see the world entirely through that lens. The UK economy isn't really about me, but when Henry, you and I were riffing about future options, I" - **Watch at 16:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqHFRgCv7-0&t=1018s) ### Example 3 > "in these to be in these circumstances the public tolerates his reliance on the small print walking away did he believe his explanations have got him off the hook his boss wanted to make announcements about the next stages of easing the lockdown but while he might still have looked unfamiliar with the details he had to defend him still you knew your" - **Watch at 5:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUDNjYBu74&t=352s) ### Example 4 > "investment options are not only limited but they all come with a lot of small print and sometimes with a very high price sometimes it is is the environment that pays the price sometimes it is workers no country" - **Watch at 0:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf40mIedu3A&t=52s) ### Example 5 > "the small print in there. You can see it in the book." - **Watch at 16:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnorhiCrcb0&t=968s) ### Example 6 > "making claims in this um they weren't even arguing necessarily that the commission payments were secret. The commission payments were somewhere in the small print. Um but they didn't read that small print. So, you know, the best thing to do if you're taking out a finance agreement is say, "What commission are you being paid?" >> And and and Helen, do you want to leave us with one last bit of advice? >> Yeah, the advice at the moment is look," - **Watch at 17:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgLU4wgMcbo&t=1024s) ### Example 7 > "have few rooms and are not like chains hotels and I just do very few books in very small print ones we have one wonderful example here that you brought along today and just tell us about this book here while I sort of you know give the viewers the opportunity to establish I'm gonna open it to see what we find let's cruise along a little bit from that one" - **Watch at 12:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Plk5GGfcjo&t=724s) ### Example 8 *Accent: UK* > "the small print oh and you paid by pay paid by bank transfer that's right yeah" - **Watch at 1:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuAMZqrTvLY&t=73s) ### Example 9 *Accent: UK* > "a small print so if you're going to do a print maybe make small it's more flattering and there's little Flex of neon but how do we know how do we know" - **Watch at 1:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQY-Ipnleo&t=85s) ### Example 10 > "And then the small print of their annual report it says, what's the main risk to this company?" - **Watch at 20:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQyr9l22fLE&t=1237s) ## How to Pronounce "small print" - **Syllables**: smal · lprint - **IPA**: `/smællprɪnt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [small](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/small), [print](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/print) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “small print”? “small print” is pronounced /smællprɪnt/ (smal · lprint). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “small print”? “small print” has 2 syllables: smal · lprint. ### How can I hear “small print” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “small print” with synchronized subtitles. 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