Grammar: Tongue Twister
Tongue Twister
A tongue-twister is a sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Even native English speakers find the tongue-twisters on this page difficult to say quickly. Try them yourself. Try to say them as fast as possible, but correctly!
• A proper copper coffee pot.
• How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?.
• She sells seashells by the seashore.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
• Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.
• Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?.
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
• I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
• Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
• Unique New York, you know you need unique New York.
• Red leather, yellow leather.
• How can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
• A proper copper coffee pot.
• Black bug's blood.
• Irish wristwatch, Swiss wristwatch.
• I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.
• Dashing Danny danced at dawn.
• If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
• Nora never knits near noisy neighbors.
• Red lolly, yellow lolly, red lolly, yellow lolly.
• Red lorry, yellow lorry
• Nora never knits near noisy neighbors.
• Ziggy the zebra zigzagged through the zoo with a zany zither.
• I have a saw that can saw as much as a saw can saw when a saw can saw as much as a saw can saw.
• Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said 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 batter better.
• Long legged ladies last longer.
• Three grey geese in green fields grazing.
• We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
• Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
• She sells sea shells on the seashore, the shells she sells are seashells I'm sure. But if she sells sea-shells on the seashore I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
• What noise annoys an oyster? Any noise annoys an oyster, but noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
• Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.
• Red lorry, yellow lorry.
• Unique New York
• Which witch wished which wicked wish? Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches? The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
• Betty Botter bought some butter, but the butter was so bitter, if Betty Botter put the bitter butter in her batter, the bitter butter would make her batter bitter, so it was better Betty Botter bought some better butter, so the better butter would not make her batter bitter.
• Bill had a billboard. Bill also had a board bill. The board bill bored Bill so Bill sold the billboard to pay the board bill. Mter , Bill sold the billboard to pay the board bill, the board bill no longer bored Bill.
• She sells sea shells on the seashore; the shells that she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
• Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
• If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
• 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
