← SayItLikeNative

How native speakers pronounce “pencil

6 examples from real videos — listen, replay, loop.

1 / 6

To William Shakespeare. "And put the pencil down!" (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Every occurrence (6)

To William Shakespeare. "And put the pencil down!" (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and she would be getting chased by this poem, and the whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper and a pencil fast enough so that when it thundered through her, she could collect it

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and the poem passes through her, and she grabs a pencil just as it's going through her, and then she said, it was like she would reach out with her other hand

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and he longs for it, but he has no way to get it. He doesn't have a piece of paper, or a pencil, or a tape recorder. So he starts to feel all of that old anxiety start to rise in him

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

I've heard of schools where they say that a kid's uh I hate L like pencil drops to the ground

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED