Tongue Twisters

1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

2. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?

3. She sells seashells by the seashore.

4. The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.

5. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

6. Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. For everyone knowses his toeses aren’t roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

7. Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. “But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better.” So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter, and it made her batter better.

8. Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles. If Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles, where is the sieve of unsifted thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted?

9. Rubber baby buggy bumpers. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

10. In the rural world girls with curls twirl.

11. Red leather. Yellow leather. Red leather. Yellow leather.

12. Iced ink. Iced ink. Iced ink. Iced ink. Iced ink.

13. Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.

14. While running down the rocky road, I saw a lazy lion lying on the lawn.

15. Round the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran.

16. A big.black bear bit a big black bug and the big black bug bled blood.

17. Peggy Babcock. Peggy Babcock. Peggy Babcock. Peggy Babcock.

18. Whether the weather is cold or whether the weather is hot, we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

19. Great gray goats. Great gray goats. Great gray goats. Great gray goats.

20. 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.

21. I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I don’t think you realized that what you heard was not what I meant.

22. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

23. Mares eat oats and does eat oats, but little lambs eat ivy.

24. I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.

25. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. Said the flea, “Let us fly!” Said the fly, “Let us flee!” So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

26. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

27. We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

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