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English Tongue Twisters
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?
IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = ELSE ELSE ELSE = IF
3
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
4
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
5
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
6
Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
7
Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
8
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
9
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.
10
There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
11
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.
12
I was born on a pirate ship
Hold your tounge while saying it.
13
I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!
14
One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.
15
Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
16
What a terrible tongue twister,
what a terrible tongue twister,
what a terrible tongue twister...
17
When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write.
18
A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
19
Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter ""T"".
20
She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
21
World Wide Web
22
Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
23
Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.
24
Four furious friends fought for the phone.
25
Black background, brown background.
26
black back bat
27
The queen in green screamed.
28
Snap Crackel pop,
Snap Crackel pop,
Snap Crackel pop
29
Six slimy snails sailed silently.
30
I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
31
Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.
32
Roofs of mushrooms rarely mush too much.
33
Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.
34
Eleven benevolent elephants
35
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
36
Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand.
37
We're real rear wheels.
38
I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
39
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.
40
How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
41
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.
42
How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.
43
How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.
44
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?
from a song by Carbon Leaf
45
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.
from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss
46
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.
47
Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
""Boo!"" cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.
48
Why do you cry, Willy?
Why do you cry?
Why, Willy?
Why, Willy?
Why, Willy? Why?
49
Very well, very well, very well ...
50
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.
51
How many berries could a bare berry carry,
if a bare berry could carry berries?
Well they can't carry berries
(which could make you very wary)
but a bare berry carried is more scary!
52
What did you have for breakfast?
- rubber balls and liquor!
What did you have for lunch?
- rubber balls and liquor!
What did you have for dinner?
- rubber balls and liquor!
- rubber balls and liquor!
53
On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
54
Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.
55
How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?
56
He threw three free throws.
57
Fresh French fried fly fritters
58
Gig whip, gig whip, gig whip, ...
59
Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.
60
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!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don't eat with your mouth full!
61
Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!
62
The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives.
63
Triple Dickle
a strong drink
64
How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?
65
Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall
66
If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts,
buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.
67
Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.
68
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
by Pierre Abbat
69
Willie's really weary.
70
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.
by Sharon Johnson
71
John, where Peter had had ""had had"", had had ""had"";
""had had"" had had his master's approval.
72
Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
73
If you can't can any candy can,
how many candy cans can a candy canner can
if he can can candy cans ?
74
This is the sixth zebra snoozing thoroughly.
75
Salty broccoli, salty broccoli, salty broccoli ....
76
A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara.
77
Suzie Seaword's fish-sauce shop sells unsifted thistles for thistle-sifters to sift.
78
I eat eel while you peel eel
79
Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.
80
Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.
81
East Fife Four, Forfar Five
An actual football result from the Scottish third division
82
It's not the cough that carries you off,
it's the coffin they carry you off in!
83
She said she should sit.
Mo mi mo me send me a toe,
Me me mo mi get me a mole,
Mo mi mo me send me a toe,
Fe me mo mi get me a mole,
Mister kister feet so sweet,
Mister kister where will I eat !?
85
Will you, William? Will you, William? Will you, William?
Can't you, don't you, won't you, William?
86
I wish you were a fish in my dish
87
The big black bug bit the big black bear,
but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!
88
Dust is a disk's worst enemy.
89
I see a sea down by the seashore.
But which sea do you see down by the seashore?
90
Old Mr. Hunt
had a cuddy punt
Not a cuddy punt
but a hunt punt cuddy.
91
As one black bug, bled blue, black blood. The other black bug bled blue.
92
I'm not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig plucker's son,
but I'll pluck your figs
till the fig plucker comes.
93
Aluminum, linoleum, aluminum, linoleum, aluminum, linoleum
94
Thin grippy thick slippery.
95
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
96
The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
97
If you notice this notice,
you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
98
If you understand, say ""understand"".
If you don't understand, say ""don't understand"".
But if you understand and say ""don't understand"".
how do I understand that you understand. Understand!?
99
She sees cheese.
100
Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
101
One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they felt smart.
Four smart fellows, they felt smart.
Five smart fellows, they felt smart.
Six smart fellows, they felt smart.
102
I would if I could! But I can't, so I won't!
103
But a harder thing still to do.
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.
From a college drama class
104
Love's a feeling you feel when you feel
you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.
105
Silly sheep weep and sleep.
106
I saw a saw in Arkansas,
that would outsaw any saw I ever saw,
and if you got a saw
that will outsaw the saw I saw in Arkansas
let me see your saw.
107
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.
108
Knife and a fork bottle and a cork
that is the way you spell New York.
Chicken in the car and the car can go,
that is the way you spell Chicago.
109
Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.
110
Two to two to Toulouse?
111
Swatch watch
112
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.
113
Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
114
Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood
115
I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks.
I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks.
I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks.
116
If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?
117
We won, we won, we won, we won, ...
118
Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.
by Julia Dicum
119
How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
120
How may saws could a see-saw saw if a see-saw could saw saws?
121
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!
122
Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.
123
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.
124
If Kantie can tie a tie and untie a tie,
why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie like Kantie can.
125
Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
126
Mummies make money.
127
Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes.
128
A black bloke's back brake-block broke.
129
Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.
130
Really leery, rarely Larry.
131
Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.
132
Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
133
Come, come,
Stay calm, stay calm,
No need for alarm,
It only hums,
It doesn't harm.
134
Tie a knot, tie a knot.
Tie a tight, tight knot.
Tie a knot in the shape of a nought.
135
Red blood, green blood
136
I'm a sheet slitter.
I slit sheets.
I'm the sleekest sheet slitter
that ever slit sheets.
137
Busy buzzing bumble bees.
138
A lump of red leather, a red leather lump
139
Nat the bat swat at Matt the gnat.
140
I am not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son
but I'll be plucking pheasants
When the pheasant plucker's gone.
141
Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
All day long she sits and shines,
all day long she shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits.
Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
All day long he fits and tucks,
all day long he tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits.
Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
sung by Ian Mackintosh
142
Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities.
143
While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
144
A big black bear sat on a big black bug.
145
A bloke's bike back brake block broke.
146
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. So, she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter and she put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter. So 'twas good that Betty Botter bought some better butter.
147
How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?
148
Good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood.
149
No nose knows like a gnome's nose knows.
by the Hofman family
150
Freshly fried fresh flesh
151
There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two, too.
152
There once was a man who had a sister, his name was Mr. Fister. Mr. Fister's sister sold sea shells by the sea shore. Mr. Fister didn't sell sea shells, he sold silk sheets. Mr. Fister told his sister that he sold six silk sheets to six shieks. The sister of Mr. Fister said I sold six shells to six shieks too!
153
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. But if Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?
154
Swan swam over the sea.
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again.
Well swum swan!
155
Sally is a sheet slitter, she slits sheets.
156
She sells sea shells on the sea shore;
The shells that she sells are sea shells I'm sure.
So if she sells sea shells on the sea shore,
I'm sure that the shells are sea shore shells.
157
You know New York.
You need New York.
You know you need unique New York.
158
What noise annoys an oyster most?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
159
Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
160
Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.
161
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
162
She slits the sheet she sits on.
163
A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
and the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists.
164
Red lolly, yellow lolly.
165
I am a mother pheasant plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
that ever plucked a mother pheasant!
166
Mrs Hunt had a country cut front
in the front of her country cut pettycoat.
167
Whether the weather be fine
or whether the weather be not.
Whether the weather be cold
or whether the weather be hot.
We'll weather the weather
whether we like it or not.
168
Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, ...
169
The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
170
There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
171
How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
172
Clowns grow glowing crowns.
173
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
174
Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
175
A box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.
176
When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
177
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.
Who is the author?
178
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
179
The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
180
She sees seas slapping shores.
181
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.
182
Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!
183
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 succesful 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.
184
Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section, ...
185
Admidst 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.
186
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy,
was he?
187
Blue glue gun, green glue gun.
188
Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!
189
Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, ...
190
Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.
191
King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
192
Five fat friars frying flat fish.
193
Betty bought some bitter butter
and it made her batter bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter
to make her bitter batter better.
194
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
195
Sweater weather, leather weather.
196
One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.
197
The big black bug's blood ran blue.
198
Ed 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, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?
199
If Dr. Seuss Were a Technical Writer.....
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!
from the Unix fortune database, attributed to DementDJ@ccip.perkin-elmer.com in the rec.humor.funny newsgroup
200
Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?
201
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.
202
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
203
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.
204
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.
205
A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more!
206
The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
207
How much dough would Bob Dole dole
if Bob Dole could dole dough?
Bob Dole would dole as much dough
as Bob Dole could dole,
if Bob Dole could dole dough.
208
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.
Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in ""Singing in the rain""
209
I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
210
She sells seashells on the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashore seashells.
211
Three Tree Turtles
Three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters.
If three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters,
where's the twisters the three tree turtles talked?
212
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.
articulation warmup for actors
213
Flies fly but a fly flies.
214
No need to light a night light on a light night like tonight.
215
I wish to wish, I dream to dream, I try to try, and I live to live, and I'd die to die, and I cry to cry but I dont know why.
From a Song by Soundgarden named ""Somewhere"" composed and written by Ben Shepherd
216
I bought a bit of baking powder and baked a batch of biscuits. I brought a big basket of biscuits back to the bakery and baked a basket of big biscuits. Then I took the big basket of biscuits and the basket of big biscuits and mixed the big biscuits with the basket of biscuits that was next to the big basket and put a bunch of biscuits from the basket into a biscuit mixer and brought the basket of biscuits and the box of mixed biscuits and the biscuit mixer to the bakery and opened a tin of sardines.
Said to be a diction test for would-be radio announcers: To be read clearly, without mistakes, in less than 20 seconds (from Coronet Magazine, August 1948).