What is a Tongue-Twister?


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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