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1.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

2.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits

3.
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hoards got bored?

4.
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can

5.
Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents

6.
Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

7.
Coy knows pseudonoise codes.

8.
Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped
and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although,
theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath
of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

9.
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

10.
Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.




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Oh My God.. Thanks.. I can use this for my class! :P
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Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
can you explain whats the meaning? I am so curious why can you write many can ?
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I don't know too, I found them in a book...
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ok thanks. at least I've know new tongue twister's sentence :)
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YayuRahayu wrote:
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
can you explain whats the meaning? I am so curious why can you write many can ?
Can= could; the ability to do something
Can= preserve, etc.
Can= container, bucket, etc.
Canner= metal container used to preserve food
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Can= could; the ability to do something
Can= preserve, etc.
Can= container, bucket, etc.
Canner= metal container used to preserve food
thank you for the solve
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11.
Federal Express is now called FedEx.
When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex.
But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec.
Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex.
If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec.
When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's
 
12.
Which witch snitched the stitched switch for which the Swiss witch wished?

13.
I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn't have thought so much.
 

14.
No need to light a night light on a light night like tonight.

15.
A real rare whale.

16.
Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn't teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.

17.
How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.

18
My mommy makes me muffins on Mondays.

19.
If you go for a gopher a gopher will go for a gopher hole

20.
Kanta is a masai girl, she can tie a tie and untie a tie, if kanta can tie a tie and untie a tie, why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie?
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13, 14, 15, 18, and 20 are not hard to say. It's strange they're considered as tongue twister phrases. :?
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Espessially for LennyeTran I chosed these.

21.
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

22.
Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

23.
If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years

24.
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

25.
A twister of twists once twisted a twist;
A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist;
If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist,
The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.

26.
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!

27.
Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally Bought his jolly golli' a dollie made of holly! The golli', feeling jolly, named the holly dollie, Polly. So Yally Bally's jolly golli's holly dollie Polly's also jolly!

28.
Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls.
Whether the temperature's up or whether the temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the pitcher are
always around. The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches. So whether the temperature's rises or
whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls.

29.
What a to do to die today
At a quarter or two to two.
A terrible difficult thing to say
But a harder thing still to do.
The dragon will come at the beat of the drum
With a rat-a-tat-tat a-tat-tat a-tat-to
At a quarter or two to two today,
At a quarter or two to two.

30.
Love's a feeling you feel when you feel
you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.
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Thanks. Those are hard to say. I hate 22 and 24. 29 and 30 are quite easy to say than the rest. :lol:
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31.
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.

32.
If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?

33.
As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes,
they're great!

34.
How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle?
A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.

35.
A fly and flea flew into a flue,
said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?'
'let us fly' said the flea
said the fly 'shall we flee'
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.

36.
How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.

37.
Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say:
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!
You can't say this? What a shame, sir!
We'll find you another game, sir.
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to ram your rom.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!

38.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood
a woodchuck could chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

39.Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the successful
thistle-sifter, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, while sifting a sieve-full
of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

40.
Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she's sad.
Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she's glad.
But the sadness of her sadness,
and the gladness of her gladness,
Are nothing like her madness when she's mad!
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I like 30 cuz easy to understand than other. :D
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41.
What to do to die today at a minute or two to two. A terribly difficult thing to say and a harder thing to do. A dragon will come and beat his drum Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-too at a minute or two to two today. At a minute or two to two.

42.
Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.


43.
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.

44.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

45.
We will learn why her lowly lone, worn yarn loom will rarely earn immoral money.

46.
Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?

47.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
but Moses supposes erroneously.
For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses,
as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

48.
Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!

49.
I stood sadly on the silver steps of Burgess's fish sauce shop, mimicking him hiccuping, and wildly welcoming him within.

50.
I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.

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51.
To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock
In a pestilential prison with a life long lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

52
Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards

53.
Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins

54.
When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write.

55.
Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

56.
Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?

57.
How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.

58.
When I was in Arkansas I saw a saw that could outsaw any other saw I ever saw, saw. If you've got a saw that can outsaw the saw I saw saw then I'd like to see your saw saw.

59.
I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

60.
Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
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61.
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

62.
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.

63.
Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.

64.
Slick slim slippers sliding south.

65.
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye
Were the size of the Leith police.

66.
Meter maid Mary married manly Matthew Marcus Mayo,
a moody male mailman moving mostly metered mail.

67.
To put a pipe in byte mode, type PIPE_TYPE_BYTE.
(from the Visual C++ help file.)

68.
I would if I could, and if I couldn't, how could I?
You couldn't, unless you could, could you?

69.
Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,
A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.
Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock,
But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.
None of your fantastic slack swap slop
From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.
Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock
With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock,
Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock
Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block.
Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop
Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.


70.
I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw. I saw Esau; he saw me :wink:
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71.
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

72.
There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through.

73.
Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

74.
In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.

75.
Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.

76.
Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.

77.
Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter ""T"".

78.
Plymouth sleuths thwart Luther's slithering.

79.
Six slimy snails sailed silently.

80.
Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.:wink:
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81.
Lovely lemon liniment.

82.
Cheap ship trip.

83.
I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"

84.
Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.

85.
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith

86.
Fat frogs flying past fast.

87.
I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.

88.
Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

89.
Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her
back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

90.
A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him
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