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Tongue twisters

1. Don’t trouble trouble

till trouble troubles you.

It only doubles trouble

and troubles others, too.

2. How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck,

If a wood-chuck could chuck wood?

A wood-chuck would chuck as much wood

As a wood-chuck would chuck,

If a wood-chuck could chuck wood.

3. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.

Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

4. If a noisy noise annoys an onion,

An annoying noisy noise

Annoys an onion more.

5. Surely Shirley shall sell

Sheila’s seashells by the seashore.

6. Which witch wishes to switch

A witch wristwatch

For a Swiss wristwatch?

7. The skunk sat on a stamp

And thunk the stump stunk.

But the stump thunk

The skunk stunk.

8. A fat cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat.

9. Swan swam over the pond.

Swim, swan, swim!

Swan swam back again –

Well swum, swan!

10. I saw Susie

Sitting in a shoe shine shop.

Where she sits she shines,

And where she shines she sits.

11. Robert ran rings around the Roman ruins.

12. I scream, you scream, we all scream for icescream!

13. One-one was a race horse,

Two-two was one, too.

One-one won one race,

Two-two won one, too.

14. As I was in Arkansas,

I saw a saw that could outsaw

Any saw I ever saw saw.

If you happen to be in Arkansas

And see a saw that can outsaw the saw I saw saw,

I’d like to see the saw you saw saw.

15. 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

Would make my batter better.”

So she bought a bit of butter –

Better than her bitter butter.

And she baked it in her batter –

And the batter was not bitter!

So ‘twas better Betty Botter

Bought a bit of better butter.

16. 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.

17. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

18. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

19. She stood on the balcony,

Inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping

And amicably welcoming him in.

20. The big black bug bit the big black bear.

And the big black bear bit the big black bug back!

21. You see a sea down by the seashore.

But which sea do you see by the seashore?

22. A fly and a flea flew in a flue.

Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we do?”

“Let us fly, “ said the flea.

Said the fly, “Shall we flee?”

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

23. Whether the weather be fine

Or whether the weather be not.

Whether the weather be cold

Or whether the weather be hot.

We’ll weather the weather

Whether we like it or not.

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