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Tongue Twisters

That's Easy For You To Say

Tongue twisters require an agile tongue and good concentration. Try your luck with the following mouthfuls. You have to say them out loud correctly or it doesn't count.

• The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
• A Tudor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
• 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.
• Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
• Eight great gray geese grazing gaily in Greece.
• Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.
• Six thick thistle sticks.
• Thomas Tattertoll took taught twine to tie ten twigs to two tall trees.
• Sixty-two sick chicks sat on six slim slink slender saplings.
• A big black bug bit a big black bear, making the big black bear bleed blood.
• Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
• If a three-month truce is a truce in truth, is the truth of a truce in truth a three-month truce?
• Some seventy-six sad, seasick seamen soon set sail, seeking soothing, salty South Sea sunshine.
• Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
• Broad Betty went abroad aboard a boarded boat to be a broad aboard a boarded boat.
• A skunk stood on a stump; the skunk thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
• She stood on the steps inexplicably mimicking his hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.
• If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker, it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock, or some joker who is slicker's going to trick you of your liquor if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
• You've no need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight, for a night-light's a slight light, and tonight's a night that's light. When a night's light, like tonight's light, it is really not quite right to light night-lights with their slight lights on a light night like tonight.
• She sells sea shells on the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. And if she sells sea shells on the seashore, then I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
• 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?
• 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---that 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.