Tongue Twisters
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.
Unique New York
Three free throws
Red leather, yellow leather
She sells seashells on the seashore.
One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.
All I want is a proper cup of coffee,
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat
Say this sharply, say this sweetly.
Say this shortly, say this softly.
Say this sixteen times very quickly.
Betty bought butter, but the butter was
bitter, so Betty bought better butter
to make the bitter butter better.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers!
(REPEAT, INCREASING THE TEMPO.)
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.
Red bulb, blue bulb,
red bulb, blue bulb,
red bulb, blue bulb
Red blood, blue blood
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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.
How much wood could a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood?
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Tongue Twisters, continued
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?
A bragging baker baked black bread.
The big beautiful blue balloon burst.
These thousand tricky tongue twisters
trip thrillingly off the tongue
Buy blue blueberry biscuits
before bedtime.
She sold six shabby, sheared
sheep on ship.
Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.
Dick kicks sticky bricks.
Shave a single shingle thin.
Stick strictly six sticks stumps
New York is unanimously,
universally unique.
What a to do to die today
At a minute or two to two
A thing distinctly hard to say
And harder still to do.
For they’ll beat a tattoo at twenty to two
A rat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-too
And the dragon will come when he
hears the drum,
At a minute or two to two today
At a minute or two to two.
Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
Flora’s freshly fried fish
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