Thursday, August 2, 2007

TONGUE TWISTERS

B

Bad black bran bread.

Big ben blew big blue bubbles

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.

The fuzzy bee buzzed the buzzy busy beehive.

Blue bugs blood.

C

Crisp crust crackles.

Chocolate chip cookies in a copper coffee cup.

Ape Cakes, Grape Cakes.

Cinnamon aluminum linoleum.

Clean clams crammed in clean cans.

How much can can a cannibal nibble, if a cannibal can nibble can?

Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.

Cuthbert's cufflinks.

D

A dozen dim ding-dongs.

E

Ere her ear hears her err, here ears err here.

F

False Frank fled Flo Friday.

Four free-flow pipes flow freely.

A fat-free fruit float.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?

G

Greek grapes.

Gus goes by Blue Goose bus.

Cows graze in droves on grass that grows on grooves in groves.

Gale's great glass globe glows green.

Higgledy-Piggedly!

The hare's ear heard ere the hare heeded.

Hiccup teacup!

A haddock!
A haddock!
A black-spotted haddock!
A black spot
On the black back
Of a black-spotted haddock!

I

I see Isis's icy eyes.

Ike ships ice chips in ice chips ships.

J

A gentle judge judges justly.

June sheep sleep soundly.

Judicial system

K

Kinky kite kits

A knapsack strap

Keenly cleaning copper kettles

Come kick six sticks quick

Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest!

L

Lonely lowland llamas are ladylike.

Lisa laughed listlessly.

Larry sent the latter a letter later.

Literally literary

Red leather! Yellow leather!

Lesser leather never weathered lesser wetter weather.

M

I miss my Swiss Miss.
My Swiss Miss misses me.

A missing mixture measure.
Much mashed mushrooms.

N
Nick knits Nixon's knickers.

Nine nimble noblemen nibbled nuts

A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

Norse myths.
Nine nice night nymphs.

O
Awful old Ollie oils oily autos.
"Under the mother otter," muttered the other otter.


P
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter.
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper,
a pack of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper,
where's the pack of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

Paul, please pause for proper applause.

A pack of pesky pixies.

Preshrunk shirts.

Peggy Bobcock's mummy.

A proper cup of coffee is a proper coffee cup.
A proper crop of poppies is a proper poppy-crop.

Is a pleasant peasant's pheasant present?
Pooped purple pelicans

Q
The quack quit asking quick questions.

The queen coined quick clipped quips.

Quick kiss
Quicker kiss
Quickest kiss

R

A lump of red lead,
A red lead lump.

Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

Rex wrecks wet rocks

Rubber baby-buggy bumpers

Raise Ruth's red roof.

Roland road in a Rolls Royce
Rush the washing, Russel!

Ruth's red roof

S
Sherman
shops at cheap chop suey shops.

Selfish sharks sell shut shellfish.

Seth's sharp spacesuit shrank.

Sexist sixties.

She sells Swiss sweets.

She sells sea shells by the seashore.
Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.

Six crisp snacks.

Stagecoach stops.

Strange strategic statistics.

No shipshape ships shop stocks shop-soiled shirts.

No shark shares swordfish steak.

Short folder.

Sister Susie sewing shirts for soldiers.

Six sick sheep

If he slipped, should she slip?

Miss Smith dismisseth us.

I'm a sheet slitter. I slit sheets.
I am the best sheet slitter that ever slit a sheet.
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit.

The swan swam over the sea. Swim swan swim.
The swan swam back again. Well swum, swan.

Synonym cinnamon

T
I shot three shy thrushes.

There goes one tough top cop!

Do thick tinkers think?

Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin

Truly rural.

Three free throws.

Thelma sings the theme song.

Toy boat.

Tacky tractor trailer trucks.

Twice we tripped toys.

U

Unique New York.

The U.S. twin-screw cruiser.

V

What veteran ventriloquist whistles.

Valuble valley villas.


W

Which rich wicked witch wished the wicked wish?
Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?
Which witch watched which watch?

Irish wrist-watch
Real wristwatch straps.

Wally Winkle wriggles his white, wrinkled wig.


X

X-Mas wrecks perplex and vex.

X-ray checks clear chests.

Ex-disk jockey.

The ex-egg examiner


Y
Yanking yellow yo-yos

Yellow leather, yellow feather, yellow lemon

Local yokel jokes.


Z

This is a zither
Is this a zither?
Zizzi's zippy zipper zips
Zithers slither slowly south.

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