Tongue Twisters

A
1. Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
He thrusts his fist against the posts
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
2. Are our oars oak?
3. Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
4. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
5. 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.
6. 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?
7. A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"

B
1. Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
2. Betty better butter Brad's bread.
3. Betty Botter bought some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter That would make my batter better."

So she bought a bit of butter,

Better than her bitter butter,
And she baked it in her batter,
And the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
4. A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
5. A bitter biting bittern
Bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitter better bittern
Bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten,
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"
6. Black bug's blood.
7. The blue bluebird blinks.
8. The bootblack bought the black boot back.
9. A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
10. Brad's big black bath brush broke.
11. Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.
12. Bill had a billboard, Bill also had a board bill. The billboard bored Bill so Bill sold the
billboard to pay for the board bill.

C
1. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary
menagerie?
2. Cedar shingles should be shaved and saved.
3. A cheap ship trip.
4. Chop shops stock chops.
5. Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.

6. Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.

7. The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver.
8. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

D
1. Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.
3. Draw drowsy ducks and drakes.
4. Denise sees the fleece,

Denise sees the fleas.

At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
5. Don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you! If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles
you!

F
1. Fat frogs flying past fast.
2. A fat thrush flies through thick fog.
3. Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
4. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
5. Freshly fried flying fish, freshly fried flesh.
6. Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.

G
1. Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.
2. Give me the gift of a griptop sock: a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.

H
1. 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.
2. How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
3. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
4. 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.
5. How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.
6. Hercules, a hardy hunter, hunted a hare in the Hampshire Hills. Hit him on the head with a
hard, hard hammer and he howled horribly!
I
1. I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"
2. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottenton tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?
3. If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor
the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who
doctors doctors?
4. I need not your needles, they're needless to me;

For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;

But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.
5. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
6. I thought a thought
But the thought I thought
Was not the thought
I thought I thought.
7. 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.

8. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!
9. If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's
packers packed survive for two and a half years?
10. I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
11. Imagine, imagining imagining, an imaginary imaginary imaginary menagerie manager,
imagining imagining imagining an imaginary imaginary imaginary managerie.
12. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice,
Im perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
L
1. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

M
1. The minx mixed a medicinal mixture.
2. 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.
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!
3. 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?
4. Meter maid Mary married manly Matthew Marcus Mayo,
a moody male mailman moving mostly metered mail.

N
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

O
1. 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.
Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.
2. Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar That boar will bore the bear no more.
3. One-One was a racehorse;
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too. On mules we find two legs behind
And two we find before.
We stand behind before we find
What those behind be for.

P
1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
2. Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.
3. A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.

R
Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

S
1. Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.
2. Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes as the sunshine shone on the side of the
shot-silk sash shop.
3. The sawingest saw I ever saw saw was the saw I saw saw in Arkansas.
4. Say this sharply, say this sweetly;
Say this shortly, say this softly;
Say this sixteen times in succession.
5. She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.
6. Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
7. 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.
8. Susan shineth shoes and socks;
Socks and shoes shines Susan.

She ceases shining shoes and socks,

For shoes and socks shock Susan.
9. Six Czech cricket critics

T
1. That bloke's back bike brake-block broke.
2. Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass.
3. 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.
4. A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor:
"Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?"
5. The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.
6. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
7. 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.
8. 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.

V
Vincent vowed vengence very vehemently.

W
1. We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
2. What noise annoys a noisy oyster? A noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster.
3. When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist,
For the twisting a twist, he three twines will entwist;
But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist,
The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.
4. Which switch, Miss, is the right switch for Ipswich, Miss?
5. While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with
warm washing water.
6. 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.
7. We need a plan to fan a pan; find a pan to fan, then find a fan to fan the pan, then fan the pan.

Y
You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.