--- title: "How to pronounce \"smogs\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"smogs\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/4fkcTA7YX44/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smogs" --- # How to pronounce "smogs" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/smɒgs/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **smogs** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (8 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "smogs" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "Some people even suffocated from breathing so much smoke or the poisons in the air. Individual smogs in 1873 and 1892 each killed over a thousand humans and livestock. And we don’t even know how many people died early from collecting soot in their lungs over the course of their lives." - **Watch at 2:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkcTA7YX44&t=144s) ### Example 2 > "By regulating coal, within a few years the problems of smog were rapidly reduced. I remember the smogs well. When the visibility dropped to than a few meters, they stopped the buses and I had to walk." - **Watch at 8:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmai4zkKNcM&t=485s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "Really bad smogs could kill a thousand people in a few days, but no one did much about it until 1952, when a five-day smog in London killed an estimated twelve thousand people." - **Watch at 0:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkcTA7YX44&t=17s) ### Example 4 *Accent: UK* > "more and more smogs and on stream on street pollution but they say if you look at the richest countries" - **Watch at 26:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCMykexJgxQ&t=1619s) ### Example 5 *Accent: UK* > "1950s had smogs and london is now quite a clean city because we've moved all the polluting things away and we've put" - **Watch at 27:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCMykexJgxQ&t=1631s) ### Example 6 > "true Israel maintains that terrorists are hiding in civilian structures and areas and that it takes steps to minimize civilian casualties recent scenes from Gaza smogs and hospitals suggest otherwise well the Israeli military declined DW's request for an interview now Robert Goldman is a professor of law at American University in Washington D. C he's also faculty director of the war crimes research office and co-director" - **Watch at 3:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6HGrJTzJW0&t=199s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "New York City had a series of smogs in the 1960s that affected more than 16 million people, and black, soot-filled rain coated Boston around the same time." - **Watch at 4:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkcTA7YX44&t=262s) ### Example 8 > "coming through Eastern Europe again it was the start of the winter um again just heavy rain strong winds low Cloud fog more weather in Saudi Arabia with dust storms and again reduced visibility almost like fog India was difficult because again at this time of year you get these seasonal smogs so flying in Just 2 3,000 M of visibility in pea soup but despite all that she continues" - **Watch at 1:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQBqIc7JrK8&t=80s) ## How to Pronounce "smogs" - **Syllables**: smogs - **IPA**: `/smɒgs/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [smog](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smog) ### Related Terms [antismog](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/antismog) ### Related Concepts [pea-souper](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pea-souper) ## Synonyms [pea-soup fog](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pea-soup-fog) ## Related Pronunciations [smegs](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smegs), [smofs](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smofs), [smas](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smas), [smebs](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smebs), [smeg](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smeg), [smg](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smg), [smo](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smo), [smoak](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/smoak) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “smogs”? “smogs” is pronounced /smɒgs/ (smogs). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### What does “smogs” mean? third-person singular simple present indicative of smog ### How can I hear “smogs” used in real sentences? This page has 8 real-world video examples of “smogs” with synchronized subtitles. 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