Tongue (finger) Twisters
- 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 - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood. - I scream, you scream,
We all scream for ice cream. - Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So ‘t was better Betty Botter bought some better butter. - Betty bought some butter,
but the butter was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter
to make the bitter butter better. - She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
And if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells. - Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye. - How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.
- She sells seashells by the seashore of Seychelles.
- “Surely Sylvia swims!” shrieked Sammy surprised. “Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink.”
- A really leery Larry rolls readily to the road.
- Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
- Lucky rabbits like to cause a ruckus.
- I looked right at Larry’s rally and left in a hurry.
- Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
- The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
- 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 I thought. - 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.
- Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
- 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!
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!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! - If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
- Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
- Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
- Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?
- Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
- Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
- Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
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.
Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, “Let us fly!”
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
- Round the rough and rugged rock the ragged rascal rudely ran.
- All I want is a proper cup of coffee,
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot
But I want a cup of coffee
From a proper coffee pot.
Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots
They're no use to me -
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot
I'll have a cup of tea. - Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts. - Two tiny timid toads trying to trot to Tarrytown.
- Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts.
- Quizzical quiz, kiss me quick.
- Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
- What a to do to die today
At a minute or two to two
A thing distinctly hard to say
And harder still to do.
For they'll beat a tattoo at twenty to two
A rat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-too
And the dragon will come when he hears the drum,
At a minute or two to two today
At a minute or two to two. - Eve eating eagerly elegant Easter eggs.
- Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
- These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
- Tongue Twisters for Kids
- A proper copper coffee pot.
- One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too. - Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
- Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
- If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
- Easy Tongue Twisters
- He threw three free throws.
- I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
- If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
- Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
- I like New York, unique New York, I like unique New York.
- Four fine fresh fish for you.
- A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.
- Short Tongue Twisters (3x)
- Six sticky skeletons.
- Which witch is which?
- She sees cheese.
- Stupid superstition.
- Eleven benevolent elephants.
- Truly rural.
- Tongue Twisters About Thinking & Feeling
- Three thin thinkers thinking thick thoughtful thoughts.
- 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 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. - I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
- 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.
Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now, See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Perspicacious Polly Perkins purchased Peter's product
And peddled pickles to produce a pretty profit!
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
just because See's saw sawed
Soar's seesaw.
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?"
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.
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.
Ned Nott was shot ...
Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot.
But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,
Or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
Then Shott was shot, not Nott.
However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott.
Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter,
Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles.
If Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter,
Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles,
Where is the sieve of un-sifted thistles
Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter, sifted?
A big black bear ...
A big black bear bit a big black bug
and the big black bug bled black blood.
Moses supposes his toeses ...
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.
Esau Wood sawed wood.
Esau Wood would saw wood with a wood saw.
Esau's wood saw would saw wood!
One day, Wood's wood saw would saw no wood,
so Wood sought a wood saw that would.
Then, Wood saw a wood saw saw wood as no
wood saw Wood ever saw wood sawed wood.
So Wood sought the wood saw that sawed wood
as no wood saw Wood ever saw ever sawed.
Now Wood saws wood with the wood saw Wood
saw saw wood as no wood saw
Wood ever saw would wood saw wood.