What is a Tongue-Twister?

A tongue-twister is a phrase that is purposefully designed to be hard to articulate properly. 

Tongue-twisters are used for the amusement of people, laughing at some of the mispronounced words, however can be great for articulation. If you're interested, I have written a post about how to develop articulation.

A tongue-twister is normally comprised of a rapid alteration between similar phonemes, rhyming, and can include alliterations.

If you're now wanting to try some tongue-twisters, then try these - just make sure to repeat them over-and-over again until you make a mistake, and to try and go as fast as you can:

• She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. 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.
• Red lorry, yellow lorry.
• Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitterAnd made her batter bitter.
  But a bit of better butter makes better batter.
  So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
  Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
  Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
  If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers,
  Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
• Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
  One shot of Scott's Schnapps stopped Schwab's watch.
• Unique New York.
• Greek grapes.
• A Proper Copper Coffee Pot.
• Betty bopper's battering batton made bertie bopper bite her.
• Cecily thought Sicily less thistly than Thessaly.
• Irish wristwatch.
• Peggy Babcock.
• Pleasant mother pheasant plucker.
• Red Leather, Yellow Leather.
• Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper.
• Smiley shlug with Shloer. 
• Unique New York.
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much as he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood! 
• Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
• Shine my city shoes!
• She sat upon a balcony, inimicably mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.
• Dog, doggy, doggity. 
• The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
• How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
• I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
  Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
• Wolf waffling (I made this tongue-twister up as I was writing this post). :)
• Rubber baby buggy bumpers
• Toy boat.
• Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran
• Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a bear.  Fuzzy-Wuzzy had no hair.  Fuzzy-Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he? 
  
  
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