3. 3. Tongue twisters

1. Critical cricket critic.

A big blue bucket of blue blueberries.

A cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot

Unique New York.

Hiccup, snickup, rise up right up

Three drops in the cup are good for hiccups.

2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

If Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers

Where is the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

3. If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who docors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the who doctors doctors?

4. Swan swam over the sea,

Swim, swan, swim;

Swan swam back again,

Well swum, swan!

5. Robert Rowley rotted a round roll around,

A round roll Robert Rowley rolled around;

Where's the round roll Robert Rowley rolled around?

She sells sea shells on the sea shore,

6. The shells she sells are sea-shells, I’ m sure,

For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,

Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.

7. Betty Botter bought some butter,

But, she said, the butter's bitter,

If I put it in my batter

It will make my baiter bitter,

But a bit of better butter.

Will make my batter butter.

8. So she bought a bit of butter

Better than her bitter butter,

And she put it in her batter

And the batter was not bitter.

So 'twas better Betty Botter;

Bought a bit of better butter.

9. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell,

The reason why I cannot tell;

But this I know, and know full well,

I do not like thee. Doctor Fell.

10. Doctor Foster went to Gloucester

In a shower of rain;

He stepped in a puddle,

Right up to his middle,

And never went there again.

11. Barber, barber, shave a pig,

How many hairs will make a wig?

Four and twenty, that's enough.

Give the barber a pinch of snuff.

12. There was an old man,

And he had a calf,

And that's half;

He took him out of the stall,

And put him on the wall,

And that's all.

13. A wise old owl sat in ah oak,

The more he heard the less he spoke;

The less he spoke the more he heard.

Why aren't we all like that wise old bird?

14. Where are you going,

My little kittens?

We are going to town

To get us some mittens.

15. What' Mittens for kittens!

Do kittens wear mittens?

Who ever saw little kittens with mittens?

16. When the wind blows,

Then the mill goes;

When the wind drops,

Then the mill stops.

17. When clouds appear

Like rocks and towers,

The Earth's refreshed,

By frequent showers

18. Little Betty Blue

Lost her holiday shoe,

What can little Betty do?

Give her another,

To match the other,

And then she may walk out in two.

19. There was a man,

And his name was Dob,

And he had a wife,

And her name was Mob.

And he had a dog,

And he called it Bob,

And she had a cat,

Called Chitterabob.

Bob, says Dob;

Chittcrabob, says Mob.

Bob was Dob's dog,

Chitterabob Mob’s cat.

20. Dame Trot and her cats

Sat down for a chat;

The Dame sat on this side

And puss sat on that.

21. Puss, says the Dame,

Can you catch a rat,

Or a mouse in the dark?

Purr, says the cat.

22. Hector Protector was dressed all in green;

Hector Protector was sent to the Queen.

The Queen did not like him,

No more did the King;

So Hector Protector was sent back again.

23. Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall;

All the King's horses and all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

24. Little Tom Tittlemouse

Lived in a bell-house;

The bell-house broke,

And Tom Tittlemouse woke.

25. Robin Hood

Has gone to the wood;

He'll come back again

If we are good.

26. Little fishes in a brook,

Father caught them on a hook,

Mother fried them in a pan,

Johnnie eats them like a man.

27. Pussy-cat, puss-cat,

Where have you been?

I've been to London

To look at the Queen.

Puss-cat, pussy-cat,

What did you there?

I frightened a little mouse

Under the chair.