Tongue Twisters  

   
 
 
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood
 
 
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?
 
 
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
 
 
Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter--
that would make my batter better."
 
 
A Tudor who tooted a flute
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?"
 
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells
 
 
Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick
 
 
The boot black bought the black boot back
 
 
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit
 
 
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
 
 
Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks
 
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better
 
 
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!"
 
 
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.
 
I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's running late
 
 
Fat frogs flying past fast
 
 
Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
 
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith
 
 
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.
 
 
Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her
back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers
 
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.
 
 
We surely shall see the sun shine soon
 
 
Six short slow shepherds
 
Which witch wished which wicked wish?
 
 
Whereat with blade,
with bloody, blameful blade,
he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.
 
 
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
 
She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping, and amicably welcoming him home.
 
 
Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.
 
 
Listen to the local yokel yodel.
 
 
Are our oars oak?
 
 
 
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.
 
 
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.
 
Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again
Well swum, swan!