Tongue Twisters

• Denise sees the fleece,

Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

• Coy knows pseudonoise codes.

• Sheena leads, Sheila needs.

• I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she
shines she sits
• How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
• The thirty-three thieves thought that they
thrilled the throne throughout Thursday
• 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.
• Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
• Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
• Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and
sticks.
• Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis
the peanut-butter picky people pick.
• 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!
• 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.
• Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
• Seventy seven benevolent elephants
• There those thousand thinkers were thinking
how did the other three thieves go through.
• Santa's Short Suit Shrunk
• One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.
• Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
• Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass.
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks
• Long legged ladies last longer.
• Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry
• A proper copper coffee pot.

• Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals

ran.

• Mixed biscuits, mixed biscuits.

• A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a

biscuit mixer!
• She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.

• The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep is sick.

• Swan swam over the pond,

Swim swan swim!
Swan swam back again -
Well swum swan!

• We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

 Twisters with "t" and "th"
Those toes aren't these toes.
These teas aren't those teas.
This tike ties threads together twice.
That tike ties together three threads.
Those threads the two tikes tied are tight.
Twist twice to tie tightly.
Thirty tee-shirts are tan, and thirteen tee-shirts are tie-dyed teal
green.
The teal tee-shirts total thirteen, the tan tee-shirts total thirty.
 Twisters with "r" and "l"
• The rickety ladder rattled right and left before it crashed through
the glass.
Rotten lettuce really reeks.
Loose, leafy lettuce reminds me of really pretty, green trees.
Real lemon, real lime, which would you pick every time?
Ribbons rolled, ribbons loose, hair untied, what's your excuse?
Tip and tap, rip and rap, lip and lap. Tip, rip, lip, tap, rap, lap.
 Twisters with "s" and "sh"
• She's so sick, and she's so sore, I wish her well
forevermore.

A shout from the south woke the sleeping

sherriff.

Something sure is fishy in this city.

Silver slivers shimmer softly in the sunlight.

 Twisters with "i" and "ee"
• Bumblebees briefly buzzed beneath the bins of beans.
Feeling ill or feeling well, Phil will hardly ever tell.
Feeling full, Phyllis didn't eat a bit of the beets.
Treena tripped on the tree root, and really ripped her
raincoat.
Tins of tiny sardines filled the field.
She sells slippers, sleepers, and tiny little creepers.
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 Twisters with Nonsense Words

• Snickety snackety snuck, trickety trackety

truck, clickety clackety cluck.

Feely filly fay, freely frilly fray, reapy rippy ray,

leapy lippy lay.
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.
• Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds
thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.

• Three short sword sheaths.

• I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

• Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.

• Then this mother soothed and bathed the other

although the other didn’t want to be together.
• Not these things here but those things there.

• Ruth and Luther’s moose’s loosest tooth is

uncouth.

• Three free throws. Three free throws. Three

free throws.
Pronunciation exercises Sound,
stress,intonation
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
Or hiccough, thorough laugh and through?
Well done: And now you wish perhaps
To learn of these familiar traps:
Beware of heard a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: It's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness' sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear
And then there's does and rose and lose,
Just look them up; and goose and choose.
And cork and work and hard and ward
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and part –
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language?
Man alive, I'd mastered it when I was five!