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Tongue Twisters
The Contest Center 59 DeGarmo Hills Road Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 |
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Here is a collection of Tongue Twisters, both old and new. The ones I have
enjoyed all my life, my personal variations on some classics, contributions
from other devotees, and some new ones I devised. Enjoy!
       For those who like an extra challenge, try saying each tongue twister aloud within the par time given. |
       Saul saw Esau saw Sue's seesaw. Saul soon saw Sue, swore he saw Esau saw her seesaw. Saul sued Esau for Sue's sawn seesaw. |
Par time 6 seconds |
       Sure this shop stocks short socks with spots. This shop stocks boxed sport socks, short flocked black socks, chic slack silk socks, and slick taut flax socks. We've racks of sharp black-backed blocked Scots socks, and stacks of posh knit lush cropped-top socks. This shop's short-topped sock stock's tops. |
Par time 13 seconds |
       Betty Bodder bought a bit of bitter butter. "That butter's bitter," Bodder spluttered, "It would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter oughta make my batter better." Then Betty Bodder bought a bit of better butter, better than the bitter butter, and the batter was made better by the bit of better butter Betty Bodder bought. |
Par time 10 seconds |
The sixth Sikh sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
The sick Sikh sheik's slick sheep's sixth. The strict Sikh sheik's sleek sixth sheep's streaked. The slick sheik's sick sixth sheep seeks sleep. |
Par time 7 seconds |
(Note: KH is pronounced as in Khomeini or Khrushchev,
or like CH in Bach, loch, or Chanukah.) |
       Titimus A Tatimus took two tees to tie to the tops of two tall trees. If Titimus A Tatimus took two tees to tie to the tops of two tall trees, where's the two tees Titimus A Tatimus took? |
Par time 6 seconds |
       If a bitty bitter biting bittern bit a bigger bitter biting bittern, would the bigger bitter biting bitten bittern bite the bitty bitter biting bittern back? |
Par time 5 seconds |
Bemidst the mists and coldest frosts
with strongest blasts and stiffest gusts he beats his fists against the posts yet still insists he seized the ghosts. |
Par time 5 seconds |
       A drunk skunk jumped kerplunk on a stump. When the skunk's rump plunked on the stump, the stump thumped the skunk's rump. The skunk thunk the stump stunk. The stump thunk the skunk's rump stunk. |
Par time 7 seconds |
       Pretty Betty Pratt bought big Bing Bridge's pink pick. Big Bing Bridge, bring pretty Betty Pratt that pink pick, pronto! |
Par time 4 seconds |
   Proper chopper shoppers shop for sharper copper choppers.
   Sharper chopper shoppers shop for proper copper choppers.    A proper chopper shopper's chopper's sharper. |
Par: repeat twice in 10 seconds |
   An anonymous anemone.
   An anomalous anemone's enemy.    An anonymous anemone's an enemy.    An anomalous anemone's enemy's enmity.    An innominate anemone's inanimate enemy's enmity eminates. |
Par: repeat twice in 15 seconds |
This city's slick. This city's slicker. This city slicker's slick. This city slicker's slicker. This city slicker's city's slick. This city slicker's city's slicker. |
Par: 5 seconds |
When the crude crooner cooed to cue the coup, a cruel crew queued. |
Par: repeat 3 times in 7 seconds |
Gunter Grant's gaunt great aunt gave Gunter Grant grey gauntlets. |
Par: repeat 3 times in 6 seconds |
Surely Shirley's smelly cheap chip shop sells smily Shirley's chips cheap. |
Par: repeat 3 times in 7 seconds |
Two twisted witches watched two wrist watches. If two witches watched two wrist watches, which witch would watch which watch? |
Par: repeat 2 times in 9 seconds |
Peter's pater pitied Peter's patter.
Peter's pater rated Rita's patter better. |
Par: repeat 3 times in 8 seconds |
The sneak thief's sleep's brief. |
Par: repeat 4 times in 5 seconds |
Chipper shippers shipped cheapish shoppers cheaper choppers. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 9 seconds |
Chester's sisters stitched Chester's vests. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 7 seconds |
Sisyphus the physicist dismissed sophistic statistics. |
Par: repeat 3 times in 7 seconds |
Chic chief chef, cheap chief chef. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 6 seconds |
She sells seashells at the seashore seashell sale. |
Par: repeat 3 times in 5 seconds |
That bike bloke's back brake block broke. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 6 seconds |
The dyspeptic assistant detective inspected the district's suspicious asphyxia statistics. |
Par time 3 seconds |
Sister Susie softly sits slowly sewing soldiers' shirts.
Susie's sister Shirley sits sewing lowly soldier's shorts. Sally, Shirley's sister slips, showing listless souls her skirts. |
Par time 7 seconds |
Vic Fisk, swiftest biscuit mixer, mixed this box of soft mixed biscuits. Biscuit mixer, deft Vic Fisk, missed this box of mixed thick biscuits. |
Par time 5 seconds |
Cinnamon liniment, Cimarron liniment. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 7 seconds |
Which witch wished which wish? |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
Tiny spiny spiders, tidy spiny spiders. |
Par: repeat 4 times in 7 seconds |
Flat tax activists. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 8 seconds |
Put the blocks back in the block box. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
Famous Hamish's famished. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 9 seconds |
Bella Bocca Polka. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 8 seconds |
Red leather, yellow leather. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
Fresh fish flesh. |
Par: repeat 7 times in 5 seconds |
A Persian person purchased a purse. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 7 seconds |
She shot slingshots. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 7 seconds |
Ford is fraught with fraud. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
The Leith police dismisseth us. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
Chipper shippers shipped cheap kippers. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 6 seconds |
Fried fillet of flying fish. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
Lester learned little Latin language lessons,
Little Latin language lessons Lester learned. |
Par: repeat 3 times in 9 seconds |
Blue bugs blow big black blobs. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 6 seconds |
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood. |
Par time 3 seconds |
Gertie's thirty dirty turtles dirtied Birdie. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 7 seconds |
Free-form flies flew free. |
Par: repeat 8 times in 7 seconds |
Black backpack back. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 4 seconds |
Floppy fluffy puppy. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
Anemone anomaly. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 7 seconds |
Unique New York. |
Par: repeat 8 times in 5 seconds |
Charmeuse chemise. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 6 seconds |
Ominous animus. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 7 seconds |
Fluffy pfeffer puffer. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 8 seconds |
Real weird rear wheels. |
Par: repeat 5 times in 5 seconds |
Bluebeard's blue bluebird. |
Par: repeat 6 times in 5 seconds |
Shropshire shrew. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 6 seconds |
Wrong runway. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 6 seconds |
Sushi sous-chef. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 6 seconds |
Susie's juicy sushi. |
Par: repeat 6 times in 5 seconds |
Fancy-shmancy sushi. |
Par: repeat 6 times in 5 seconds |
Way rewound. |
Par: repeat 10 times in 6 seconds |
Black brew. |
Par: repeat 20 times in 8 seconds |
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