What is a tongue twister?
A tongue twister is a sentence that is hard to speak,
with repeating phrases or similar sounds. They also are used to help
develop skills for speech therapy. See how fast you can say these...
Peter
Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
if Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers,
wheres the peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked?
Fuzzy
Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't
very fuzzy, was he?
I
scream, you scream,
we all scream for ice cream!
A sailor
went to sea to see,
what he could see.
And all he could see was
sea, sea, sea.
She
sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely
seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she
sells seashore shells.
I never smelled a smelt that smelled like that smelt smelled.
A tutor
who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said
the two to their tutor:
"Is it harder to toot,
or to tutor
two tooters to toot"?
Rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
A skunk
sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the
skunk stunk.
Sarah
sat sideways in a swing.
The swing swung Sarah sideways.
The Pastor prayed in the pasture.
Of all
the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
which felt
as fine as that felt felt,
when first I felt that felt hat's felt.
I
thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
I
thought I thought.
Swan
swam over the sea,
swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again.
Well
swum, swan!
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
Jolly juggling jesters jauntily juggled jingling jacks.
It's not
the cough that carries you off,
it's the coffin they carry you off
in!
When a
doctor falls ill another doctor doctor's the doctor.
Does the
doctor doctoring the doctor doctor the doctor in his own way,
or
does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the
doctor's way.
Penny's pretty pink piggy bank.
If
Freaky Fred found fifty feet of fruit
and fed forty feet to his
friend Frank,
how many feet of fruit did Freaky Fred find?
Moses
supposes his toeses are roses,
but Moses supposes erroneously;
for
nobody's toeses are poses of roses,
as Moses supposes his toeses
to be.
A good
cook could cook as much cookies
as a good cook who could cook
cookies.
I saw a
saw that could out saw
any other saw I ever saw.
Betty
bought butter but the butter was bitter,
so Betty bought better
butter to make the bitter butter better.
Harry the horse had jalapenos in his hay.