How native speakers pronounce “eight”

because she was disturbing people, her homework was always late, and so on. Little kid of eight. In the end, the doctor went and sat next to Gillian and said,

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so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn't recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep.

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in a seat that wouldn't recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep. (Laughter)

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take place by age 35. That means that eight out of 10 of the decisions and experiences and "Aha!" moments

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That's one version. Then fast-forward eight years. Bill Gates came to my hometown --

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And then, in an effort to keep them from stealing all your birdseed, you set up an eight-part Ninja Warrior obstacle course in your backyard, and in the process,

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they actually care about. We're starting with grades three through eight. It exceeds all the state science standards,

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I saw a headline, it was a very clickbaity headline: “Waymo hits an eight-year-old outside of a school.” And I was like, oh my God.

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it wasn't enough. When I was eight, we moved somewhere a little nicer and qualified for Section 8 -- which is a subsidized housing program.

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The first flaw is that it's not completely accurate. Seven to eight hours of sleep, while recommended for adults, is just an average.

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diabetes and depression. But fixating solely on seven to eight hours ignores the fact that there's a range of sleep that people need.

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The duration of a good night's sleep can be different for different people. Some adults need eight, but some are just fine on six. The second flaw with this kind of doomsday messaging

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It's 4 a.m., and the big test is in eight hours, followed by a piano recital.

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Especially here in Washington, if you try to make a breakfast date, and you say, "How about eight o'clock?" they're likely to tell you, "Eight o'clock is too late for me,

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and you say, "How about eight o'clock?" they're likely to tell you, "Eight o'clock is too late for me, but that's OK, I can get a game of tennis in

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but that's OK, I can get a game of tennis in and do a few conference calls and meet you at eight." And they think that means they are so incredibly busy and productive,

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because she would have woken up from a seven-and-a-half- or eight-hour sleep, and have been able to see the big picture.

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Don't do that. Number eight: Stay out of the weeds. Frankly, people don't care

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It might be surprising, but I'm actually also an introvert. However, keep in mind that just like getting eight hours of sleep at night, the exact amount that's right for you personally

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It didn't matter whether we were lightweights or we were open weights, whether we were in a single or an eight. We did do lactate testing,

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my whole approach to stress. This study tracked 30,000 adults in the United States for eight years, and they started by asking people,

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including people who had relatively little stress. Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths,

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In the developed world, everywhere, women live an average of six to eight years longer than men do. That's, like, a huge gap.

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owner of Denny Moe's Superstar Barbershop in Harlem. I've been lucky enough to have Denny as my barber for the last eight years. He said to me once,

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on average as long as I've been with Denny, about eight years. And black men see their barbers about every two weeks.

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Freud's as we go through psychosexual stages Erickson insists there are eight stages of moral development

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to make school feeding programs sustainable and scalable. Today, one in eight people in the world are African, like me. By 2050, we'll be one in four.

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You can buy a solar module for the price of about eight cups of the posh coffee you get here in Brussels.

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Sixteen gigawatts of solar modules have left China for Pakistan in the first eight months of this year. What is going on here?

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The United States exhausts its shallow arsenal of precision munitions in a mere eight days. Taiwan falls within weeks.

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in months, not years. That approach has allowed us, in less than eight years, to build autonomous fighter jets for the United States Air Force,

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but everyone else connected to me. Thirty-eight years of my life, I went on a self-seeking journey, finding, who am I?

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And Chloe is 16 now, but when she was just eight years old, she would walk to school with her mom

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40s had walked half a mile to school and her son who was eight was not allowed and I can't remember if it's not allowed

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and when I gave the talk I think we had had eight states had passed the reasonable childhood independence law

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because she's a mom who realizes like, look, my eight-year-old can get herself a glass of milk and or almond milk now,

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Missouri, and now it's being considered in eight more states. And maybe someday

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this giant girl in a hoodie sweatshirt emerge from the crowd. She was maybe eight feet tall and looked like she could beat me up with one hand,

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I’m here to talk about the possibility of global AI governance. I first learned to code when I was eight years old, on a paper computer,

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So I've always been a technologist. And eight years ago, on this stage, I was warning about the problems of social media.

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if we can commonly recognize what we have to do. And eight years from now, I'd like to come back to this stage,

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As one of our participants from another process said, "They may be experts in AI, but I have eight grandchildren. I know how to pick good values."

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a one to three of temporary and reversible pain for an eight to 10 of positive, life-changing impact that could be a semi-permanent.

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(Laughter) Those cells turn themselves over once every eight years. And every time they turn themselves over

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full of vegetables with lots of color in them. And they eat about eight times as much tofu as Americans do.

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100 years ago, there were less than two billion people on earth. Today there's almost eight billion and counting. And we have that runaway population growth

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Now, we all start life as a single cell. It multiples to two. Two becomes four. Four becomes eight, and on and on to form the 200 million billion cells

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I woke to 40,000 new followers. My first viral video had nothing to do with my eight years of higher education. It was about me, a human being,

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If someone did nothing but read 24 hours a day for their entire life, they'd consume eight billion words. And of course, that's a lot of words.

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And of course, that's a lot of words. But today, the most advanced AIs consume more than eight trillion words in a single month of training.

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Well, I bet I know how you'd solve that problem if you solved it. You went, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight." You counted them.

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They're languages that don't have a word like "seven" or a word like "eight." In fact, people who speak these languages don't count,

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Flying cars in a world where deadly diseases are eradicated. Yet when I asked eight and nine-year-olds in the classroom the same question, the future they describe is a dystopian blockbuster.

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What started to bring me out of my spiral was something I remembered during my eight years working at YouTube and Instagram, where I met many creators and artists before trying to become one myself.

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(Laughter) Or failing that, do the eight things -- and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success.

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Or failing that, do the eight things -- and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. Thank you TEDsters for all your interviews!

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So I thought, "I've got to get better at this." And so for the next eight years, I committed myself to doing stories where you heard truths collide.

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that you could bring to it to put it into perspective. And eight months after my house burned down, I ran into a friend who taught at a local high school,

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live-in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages. So, the year I turned eight, we got a new house boy. His name was Fide.

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