Tounge Twisters
Nearly all on this page from source.
What are they?
A tongue-twisters are words that are difficult to say together. And even harder if you say them quickly. Try to say them quickly and correctly!
Doctoring
(år 9)
If a doctor doctored another doctor,
Would the doctor doing the doctoring
Doctor the other doctor
In the way the doctored doctor wanted to be doctored.
Or would the doctor doing the doctoring
Doctor the other doctor
the way the doctor who doctors doctor?
A Tudor
(House of Tudor, English roya l house of Welsh origins.)
A Tudor who tooted a flute (or a car's horn)
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?"
Wood
(år 9)
Bill Wood said he would carry the wood
through the wood if Wood said he would.
Wood would.
Woodchuck
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Peter Piper
(What a pity about poor Peter Piper's pretty pounds of pickled peppars)
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
A peck of pickled peppars Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
More
You're yidding:
A yard of yellow yarn for your yak?
Just desserts:
Joan the juggler juggling jam jars.
What a wretched walk:
Wrinkled Wille the Wolf — a wiz on wheels —waking up, washing, and walking to work in the woods.
Very sad news:
Very vicious vultures' vehicles vandalized
Tantilizing news:
Twelve twins tweeting and twirling on a tree twig
Susan's a sea-shell salesgirl:
Susan sells sea shells by the sea shore.
Swan swam over the pond, swim swan swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum swan!
A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
A proper copper coffee pot.
Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.
Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.
Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
Irish wristwatch.
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Long legged ladies last longer.
Pink lorry, yellow lorry.
Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.
She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
Six short slow shepherds.
Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup.
Susan sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep is sick.
Three grey geese in green fields grazing.
Unique New York.
We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
