I was looking through a book today and found a page filled with tongue twisters. I love trying to say tongue twisters, so I looked through them all and said them as best as I could. On that page I found three that I thought were fun to say, but they were still pretty hard. Below are those three tongue twisters. What do you think of them?

Six sick sheep

A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thunk the skunk stunk and the skunk thunk the stump stunk.

Aluminum linoleum


Also, I'd love to hear any tongue twisters you heard or even wrote.

Haha, those are fun ones!

How much wood would a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

Tie twine to a tree twig.

The mumble mice made music under the moonlight.

I have more...somewhere in my closet that we like to call the portal to Narnia because we are pretty sure there's an entire country in there "Woah, that's an awful big wardrobe" Anyways, maybe I'll dig those up sometime and post 'em here.

Can you say, "Red leather, yellow leather"? Say it several times.
Then of course there's the infamous "She sells seashells".

*tongue in cheek * Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers, Peter Piper picked!
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Oh you are good.

Wow! Those are good!

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.

Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.

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


The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter
And 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


Like them?

Hehehe, fun fun fun!

Here's a tongue twister:

Said sword slipped seemingly slightly.

My sister accidentally made up a tongue twister. It's:

Patched left stirrup leather.

Try saying that several times fast!

Aaand, of course there's one that I came up with in reference to my poor poems:

Silly little ditty.

I did like them, Svensteel. In fact, I loved the last one.

Thanks! You know...bitter butter bakes better batter badder... tis' true.

Ha! Some of these really bring back memories! I'm afraid I don't have any to contribute this evening, but it was fun reading all of the tongue twisters above.

~Calen

These are really good; what a fun thread, Rachel!

The only one I can think of at the moment is:


Red Yellow Green Yellow, try saying it fast over and over.

I know some people that if you ask them to say statistics they just fall over themselves trying to say it right.

*loathes that word* The word murder, murderer, and murdered are also some tongue twisters for me.

*says statistics*
Hmm... not easy...
*says murder*
Ok....fortune cookie; how would it be hard to say murder? Is is there some pun or joke that has passed me by?

I started saying;
New-yeke you-nork...
Those aren't words?!?

Haha, it is a hard word for somebody with my accent to pronounce. My mom, sister, and Abuelita can't say it either.

Hehe... I forgot...NC Bethany!

Haha... these are great! I would add some, but all the ones I know have been posted already.

There are some words in Spanish that are extremely hard to pronounce with a southern accent. Rosetta Stone didn't seem to like my pronounciation on 'como' at all.

Anyway... that was a little off-topic.

Thank you, Lady Elanor! Oh, and I tried saying red yellow green yellow a lot. It is a hard tongue twister!

Yed yellow reen gello? No... that's not right...

*Grins* It's so fun, isn't it, when you all start saying it in a room together. It ends up sounding like a cacophony of words all muddled up!


*Laughs at Sven*

I am going to go do that with my family!

Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

It's that last part of that one Airi that always trips me up!

Yep.

That's a hard one!

*says out loud* Can you can a can like a canner can can a can?

For some reason that one is easy for me. Haha, strange.

I kind of think it's cool that you can say you can can a can as a canner can can a can so you can as well as I can we all can, can you?

Haha... * cough * Sorry, couldn't resist.

After a couple hours of practice; I said it twice in a row!

I took a speech class once and the teacher had us do tongue twisters to help us speak clearer.

That sounds like fun! Did it help any?

She saw sea shells on the sea floor.

I like long ones. Here are some of my favorites... I've memorized a ton.

Luke Luck likes lakes, Luke's duck likes lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes, Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

We have a dinosaur named Din. Din's thin. Din doesn't have much skin. And the bones fall out of his left front shin. So we have to call in pinner Blinn, who comes with his handy shinbone bin, and with a thin Blinn shinbone pin, Blinn pins Din's shinbones right back in.

Upon an island hard to reach, the east beast sits upon his beach. Upon the west beach sits the west beast; east beast thinks that he's the best beast. Which beast is best? Well I thought at first that the east was best and the west was worst, then I looked again from the west to the east and I liked the beast on the east beach least.

There's one that I kept stumbling over until one night I stayed up about two hours in bed mumbling it softly to myself. The killer? "Toy boat" three times fast. Have at it!

And the red leather yellow leather has always pained me deeply

Oh, yes, toy boat sure "toys" with your tongue. And have read the one about Din.

And on the video:
I could say the "male bears belch". It was a little tough, but I got it.

*Chuckles* These are funny! That video is hilarious.