A tongue-twister is a phrase that is purposefully designed to be hard to articulate properly.
Tongue-twisters are used for the amusement of people, laughing at some of the mispronounced words, however can be great for articulation. If you're interested, I have written a post about how to develop articulation.
A tongue-twister is normally comprised of a rapid alteration between similar phonemes, rhyming, and can include alliterations.
If you're now wanting to try some tongue-twisters, then try these - just make sure to repeat them over-and-over again until you make a mistake, and to try and go as fast as you can:
- She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure. For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.
- Red lorry, yellow lorry.
- Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitterAnd made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter makes better batter.
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better. - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? - Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stopped Schwab's watch. - Unique New York.
- Greek grapes.
- A Proper Copper Coffee Pot.
- Betty bopper's battering batton made bertie bopper bite her.
- Cecily thought Sicily less thistly than Thessaly.
- Irish wristwatch.
- Peggy Babcock.
- Pleasant mother pheasant plucker.
- Red Leather, Yellow Leather.
- Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper.
- Smiley shlug with Shloer.
- Unique New York.
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much as he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!
- Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
- Shine my city shoes!
- She sat upon a balcony, inimicably mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.
- Dog, doggy, doggity.
- The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
- How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
- I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits. - Wolf waffling (I made this tongue-twister up as I was writing this post). :)
- Rubber baby buggy bumpers
- Toy boat.
- Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran
- Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy-Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy-Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
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