Monday, September 12, 2011

Tongue-Twisters

Tongue-Twisters


A tongue-twister is a sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Even native English speakers find the tongue-twisters on this page difficult to say quickly. Try them yourself. Try to say them as fast as possible, but correctly!

A proper copper coffee pot.



Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.



Long legged ladies last longer.



Mixed biscuits, mixed biscuits.



A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer!



Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.

Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?



Pink lorry, yellow lorry.



Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.



She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.



The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep is sick.

[Sometimes described as the hardest tongue-twister in the English language.]



Swan swam over the pond,

Swim swan swim!

Swan swam back again -

Well swum swan!



Three grey geese in green fields grazing.



We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

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