Canonigo Tongue Twister

PREFACE
Tongue Twisters will help one to remedy vowel

and consonant defects in speaking. These will be very
useful to English teachers and students in high school
and college.
In my humble capacity, this BOOK OF
TONGUE TWISTERS is one of my valuable
contributions to the world of literature, especially the
tongue twisters with story lines.
C.S. CANONIGO
Author of:
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Booklet of Knowledge
Conversational English-Cebuano
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Philippine Copyright 2017
by
Cristina Santos Canonigo
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ISBN 971-8905-00-6
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First Printing: August, 1993
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BOOK OF TONGUE TWISTERS
2017 Revised Edition
DEDICATION
I highly dedicate this book to the following persons:
Angelina Alas Gam

of Quezon, Bukidnon
Norma Diaz Carreon

of Binan, Laguna
Emmanuel “Eman” Saavedra Abella

of Cebu City
The Author
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ONE-LINER Tongue Twisters

Longer One-Sentence Tongue Twisters
TWO-LINER Tongue Twisters
100 LONG TONGUE TWISTERS
74 TONGUE TWISTERS with Story Lines:

1) A Flea and a Fly
2) A minute or two . . .
3) A robber . . .
4) A shooting suit
5) Auditing Auditor
6) Bank in the bank
7) Ben, Glenn and Warren
8) Betty Botter’s Butter
9) Big Brod Black Brush
10) Bill and the Billboard
11) Bill and Dong
12) Bill’s Bail
13) Bill’s Ball
14) Bitter Biting Bittern
15) Boredom
16) Box of toys
17) Candies and Cookies
18) Captor Captured Captive
19) Defective Detective
20) Doctor the doctor
21) Don’t despair
22) Dreaming dreamer
23) Esau Wood
24) Fisher, the young fisher
25) Fly in Flo’s flat
26) Five Brave Maids
27) Funny Fanny
28) If you cross
29) If
30) Imagine, Emma Jean
31) Knott Knitter Knotter
32) Kris and Cris
33) Mother Goose
34) Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside
35) Mr. See and Mr. Soar
36) Needles
37) New hose
38) Nott and Shott
39) Pitcher, the pitcher
40) Plan to Plant
41) Roasters and Coasters
42) Short, Little, Long
43) Square box
44) Submission of the decision
45) Sue to sue
46) Sue Witts, the witch
47) Super Supper
48) Teo and the Straw
49) The Bear and the Boar
50) The Bold Bald Bear
51) The Botfly and the Butterfly
52) The Cake
53) The Dishwasher
54) The Fat Cat and the Fat Rat
55) The Fortunate Fortune-Hunter
56) The Knocker-up
57) The Leather
58) The Rancher
59) The Stuff
60) The Toads
61) The Toe of the Doe
62) The Wandering Wanderer
63) The Woman & the Money Changer
64) Tie the tie
65) To Sit in Solemn Silence
66) Trace the trays
67) Tutor and Tooters
68) Twister of Twists
69) Two Boot Blacks
70) Undertaker
71) Vincent Strauss
72) Weather
73) Whistle to whistle
74) Young Nobel
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Books of C.S.Canonigo
ONE-LINER TONGUE TWISTERS
Some One-liner tongue twisters, due
to their briefness, should be read three times
for clarity and emphasis.
1) A big black bug bled in the big blue bed.

2) A big blue bucket of blue blueberries.
3) A chapped chap chopped cheap chips.
4) A cup in the pate is a mile in the gate.
5) A day at bay makes Jay feel gay.
6) A drop of ink may make a million think.
7) A fat freak fries thick steak.
8) A fine field of wheat; a field of fine wheat.
9) A fluffy flea, a foofoo fly flew up in a flue.
10) A fly flies but flies fly.
11) A gentle judge judges justly.
12) A glowing gleam glowing green.
13) A knapsack’s strap at a knapsack’s shop.
14) A moody mailman moves mostly metered mails.
15) A queer quick questioning quiz.
16) A rigid midget with a frigid digit.
17) A rain and ruin of roses over the red rose-land.
18) A roving raven on the roofing raving!
19) A rural ruler should be truly rural.
20) A ship sails south soon
21) A tale twice told is cabbage twice sold.
22) A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail.
23) A wine van ran through the vine.
24) Ann Andrew drew a drawing of dreaded Dracula
25) Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
26) At a villa in Spain lived a villain.
27) Baby bees bounce in baby buggy buggies.
28) Bald Bill builds big blue buildings.
29) Bees hoard heaps of honey in hives.
30) Better aught than naught.
31) Betty better butter Brad’s brown bread.
32) Betty Block blows big black bubbles.
33) Betty butters brother’s bread better.
34) Between two thick thumbs stick two thick sticks.
35) Big brother’s big black bath brush broke.
36) Big brown bulb-bowls.
37) Bill’s big black-and-blue blister bled.
38) Black Barry buries Berry’s black beret.
39) Black big bugs; brown bed bugs.
40) Black bug’s black blood. (3x)
41) Black bug’s black blood is bad blood.
42) Black bug’s blood; Bug’s black blood.
43) Black blocked the bleached back beach benches.
44) Blink at the blank bank blackboard.
45) Brooke’s brother brought bread butter for breakfast.
46) Brown black bran bread. (3x)
47) Bunny’s brown bran bread burned black.
48) Buyer, beware! Be aware! (3x)
49) Buzzing bugs bug Bugs Bunny.
50) Busy buzzing bumble bees busily buzzing.
51) Calm weather in June sets corn in tune.
52) Can Carol croon carols?
53) Carl’s crew caught crows crowing.
54) Cat-catchers can’t catch caught cats.
55) Charles chose the cheap sheep section.
56) Charlie’s children choose charred chicken chunks.
57) Cheap sheep soup. (3x)
58) Cheap ship trip is cheaper if ticket is round-trip
59) Cheerful children chant charming tunes.
60) Cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese.
61) Chief Sheik, sheep section.
62) Chilled cherries cheer Cheery.
63) Chimes challenged the changing year.
64) Chimney soot on Santa’s suit.
65) Chopstick shops stock chopsticks.
66) Chris chooses cheese and cherries.
67) Christmas crackers create a cracking Christmas.
68) Claire’s class clap for the clumsy clown.
69) Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
70) Cold cream clings in clottish clods.
71) Cook a cup of cold creamy custard.
72) Cornish clotted cream cartons.
73) Cory can’t carry canned corn in a can.
74) Could Cory’s callers come calmly, Camille?
75) Could Chang change channels continuously?
76) Courting and wooing; dallying and doing.
77) Crazy cooks cut chunky chips for cheeky chaps.
78) Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.
79) Crispy cracker crusts crackle and crunch.
80) Crunch crispy crisps quickly.
81) Curious children clapping and jumping.
82) Curly Cris catches crawling crabs.
83) Daffy Duck ducked down the deep damp den.
84) Deeply dreadful dreams.
85) Dely Dolly dilly-dallies daily.
86) Diligence dismisses despondency.
87) Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn.
88) Do on the hall as you would do in the hill.
89) Doc’s dog dug deep to dig up bones.
90) Don’t trust one who thrusts a thrush in a trash can.
91) Double bubble gum bubbles double.
92) Down the deep damp dark den.
93) Dust is a disk’s worst enemy.
94) East or West, home is best.
95) Eddie at eight ate eight eggs a day for eight days.
96) “Ed edited it,” said Eddie, the editor.
97) Educated Elvira enjoys everything elegant.
98) Eight eager eagles ogled old Oscar.
99) Eight elves ate everything elegantly.
100) Eight grape cakes a great ape ate.
101) Ellen eats eagerly eleven Easter eggs.
102) Every bullet has its billet.
103) Fair is the cradle; foul is the saddle.
104) Fair price for the fifth prize.
105) Fanny found freshly-fried flying fishes.
106) Feed the flies fly food, Flor.
107) Fely felt the film was flashy.
108) Fetch me the finest French-fried fries.
109) Few fruit flies fly from flames.
110) Fickle fingers flip fat frogs flat.
111) Figs form fine fancy fare.
112) Fiona fly flew faster than a fine flying flea.
113) Fireflies and friendly fleas fly far.
114) First class glass glazes as the sun blazes.
115) Fish fins are like pins.
116) Five fat French fleas freeze.
117) Five fat friars fanning five flat fleas.
118) Five fat friars frying five fat flying fish.
119) Five French friars fry French fries.
120) Five friars fanning a fainted flea.
121) Flat flying fish fly faster than flat flying fleas.
122) Flee from fog to fight flu fast.
123) Flocking shoppers shopping.
124) Floyd boiled the soiled coils in oils.
125) Fluffy feathers fell from Fely’s flimsy fan.
126) Fly flies not into a shut mouth.
127) Fool Paul fools the fool who fools his foolish pal.
128) For fine fresh fish, phone Phil.
129) Four free-flow pipes flow freely.
130) Fowl and fish: freshly fried fresh flesh.
131) Fred’s fearless father fell fifty feet.
132) Fred feeds fish fresh fish food.
133) Fred fried four funny flippy floppy fishes.
134) Fresh-fried fowl flesh. (3x)
135) Freshly fried fresh fish flesh.
136) Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
137) Friendly Fred fed fish fresh fruits.
138) Fritz feeds fish fresh fish food.
139) Full fathom five thy father’s father lies.
140) Giddy gophers greedily gobble goodies.
141) Give and spend and God will send.
142) Give Mr. Snipe’s wife’s knife a swipe.
143) Glady’s glamorous granny grew more garrulous.
144) Gnats are not gnawing on nuts at night.
145) “Gone, gone, gone,” groaned the green grocer.
146) Granny glares at a green gruel.
147) Granny’s gray geese graze gaily daily.
148) Great barkers are no biters.
149) Great Granny grinned gladly.
150) Great green grapes growing.
151) Greedy gobblers grabbed the gravy.
152) Greek grapes were eaten by great gray goats.
153) Green glass glows greener in a green field.
154) Green gloves glided gracefully to the ground.
155) Green grain made the old maid grin.
156) Greg’s great glass globe glows green.
157) Grey geese in green grass grazing.
158) Gus Abelgas goes by Blue Goose bus.
159) Half the way to know how to weigh.
160) Harry hurried home from the howling hurricane.
161) Has Hilda heard how Hana hurried home, Hal?
162) He doesn’t boast who does the most.
163) He hung hundreds of hammers in his house.
164) He reversed the verse when he rehearsed.
165) He who laughs last laughs last.
166) Heidi hears Horace holler hilariously.
167) Henry helped Harold hold the hot pot.
168) His hat hit Henry who hates hounding hares.
169) His wife gave Mr. Swappy’s wife a swipe.
170) How can a clean clam cram in a clean cream can?
171) How much oil can a coil boil if a coil can boil oil?
172) Hu the fly had a flu and when Hu flew, the flu flew.
173) Hungry Harry hurries home.
174) Hurry, Harry, hurry!
175) I notice this dish tasted best when slightly chilled.
176) I ship ice chips in ice chips ships.
177) I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you.
178) I wish to watch her wash her Swiss wristwatch.
179) Ike ships ice chips in ice chip ships.
180) Is a pleasant peasant’s pheasant present?
181) Is this his sixth sister’s six-sitter, Sir?
182) It’s a pity that pretty girl is not witty.
183) James jostled Jean while Jean jostled Jim.
184) Jealous Jackie is joking with Jet Li.
185) Joe joyously joined Joey in July not January.
186) John jeered jokingly as Joy jubilantly jogged.
187) John Jones jumped jerkily on Jimmy.
188) Jolly juggling jesters jauntily juggled jingling jacks.
189) Jumping Jack jeered a jesting juggler.
190) Kitty kept the kitten in the kitchen.
191) Knapsack’s straps snapped at Knapsack’s shop.
192) Lame lambs limp. (3x)
193) Larry sent the latter a letter later.
194) Lean Linny Long loves long Lenny Lynn.
195) Lee Mon likes lemon lollies least.
196) Lemon lime liniment in the tenement.
197) Lester Lee lists the lesser lesson last.
198) Li lingered, looking longingly for her lovely lilies.
199) Literally, literary. (3x)
200) Literally literary literature in lots of libraries.
201) Little Boy Blue blew a big blue bubble.
202) Little by little is the cat at the fickle.
203) Liz Lengti lisps lengthy lessons.
204) Long-legged ladies live longer.
205) Luz lost low cost shoes at the coast.
206) Manda makes marvelous meatballs.
207) “Manners make a man,” remarked Mark.
208) Many dishes, many diseases.
209) Mix, Miss Mitz, mix!
210) Mixed metaphors muddle middling minds.
211) Mozart’s music madly melodious.
212) Much mashed mushrooms.
213) Musician’s music moved multitudes.
214) Must mussels have muscles?
215) My main man is a main frame.
216) Nap’s nap sack’s strap snapped.
217) Nene needs cheap chips for ship trip.
218) New York is universally unique.
219) Nick knits Nikki’s knickers.
220) Nine nice night nymphs.
221) Nine nimble noblemen nibbled nuts.
222) Nobility’s mobility; mobility of nobility.
223) Not these things here but those things there.
224) Old oily Orly oils old oily Ollie.
225) Olive oil ointment.
226) One old ox met one old owl.
227) Pamela painted a paper peacock pink.
228) Papa panda pooped pink plastic pajamas.
229) Painter Peter painted the porch pink.
230) Pass the big black blank bank book back.
231) Pass the plate of peeled plums, please.
232) Pass the plate of purple pie, please.
233) Paul pulls the pole near the pool.
234) Paz, pass the pink peas, please.
235) Penny and penny, laid up will be many.
236) People tremble on pebbles and bubbles.
237) Perkins polished paper plates for pleasure.
238) Peter Pringle printed press paragraphs.
239) Pick up the picked plums, please.
240) Pile pink pails near pink plant pots.
241) Place some ice on Sam’s eyes.
242) Plant pumpkins in a pumpkins’ patch.
243) Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.
244) Please cook crooked crabs, Cook.
245) Please, pause for proper applause.
246) Please prune plum trees promptly.
247) Plenty of puddings make people plump and pale.
248) Polly planted pretty precious pot plants.
249) Poor four pale pure mule’s pure food.
250) Pop bottles pop-bottles in pop shops.
251) Pragmatic politicians pontificate precociously.
252) Prepare four pink pills for four poor pale pupils.
253) Prepare the paired pared pears.
254) Pre-shrunk shirts for smart shoppers.
255) Pretty Pat plants pumpkins in a pumpkin’s patch.
256) Pure food for four pale pure mules.
257) Queeny coined quick clipped quips.
258) Race winners want red wine right away.
259) Raise Ruth’s red roof, Rex.
260) Red roses rustle rurally.
261) Resoluble, resolvable; resolvable, resoluble.
262) Roads close as snow slowly shows.
263) Roland’s Rolls Royce in Wonderland.
264) Roofs of mushrooms mashed too much.
265) Rose rose to accept the rose from Ross.
266) Rotten writing is written rotten.
267) Round and round the rubber road - runner runs.
268) Ruling ruler rules.
269) Sailing ships should shun shallow shoals.
270) Sally’s son shines shop signs.
271) Sam shops at the chop suey shop.
272) Sam’s shop stocks some short spotted socks.
273) Sam’s sons shelter six scenic sightseers.
274) Sammy’s sports shop stocks spotted socks.
275) Santa’s sack sags slightly.
276) Santa’s short suit shrunk.
277) Santa’s sleigh slides on snow.
278) Sarah’s sharp spacesuit shrank.
279) See the price of rice at Sunrise Merchandise.
280) Selfish sharks shut shellfish.
281) Seven sleek sleepless sleepers seek sleep.
282) Seven swans swam slowly southwards.
283) Shallow sailing ships should shun shallow shoals.
284) Sha’s shabby silver shoes still shine.
285) Sharon sews shocking soldier’s shirts.
286) Sharp shooter Steve shot six smart sharks.
287) Shaw saw a sash shop of shiny sashes.
288) Shears have sharp shining points.
289) She saw Sherry sit in the shade.
290) She sees chess but says “cheese.”
291) She sells seashells on the seashore.
292) She shops at cheap chips shops.
293) She shopped at Susie Soy Sauce Shop.
294) She shrieks as she stitches sheets.
295) She sifted thistles through her thistle sifter.
296) Sheep shouldn’t sleep in shaky shacks.
297) Sheila seldom sells shelled shrimps.
298) She’ll surely see the sun shine soon.
299) Shirley’s silky shoes and soppy socks.
300) Should Sheila shun sunshine, Sarah?
301) Showy sashes in a shut sash shop.
302) Shredded Swiss cheese and Swiss sweets.
303) Shy Sarah saw six Swiss wristwatches.
304) Shelly shivered in a sheer, short, shirt.
305) Shirley slipped on the slippery street.
306) Silky shirt shrunk in soap suds.
307) Silly sheep weep; shy sheep sleep.
308) Silver streaks stick strongly.
309) Simple Simon simply sat sulking silently.
310) Sing six songs sadly, Sonny.
311) Sissy Susie sipped salty soup.
312) Six shaved sheep sat shivering.
313) Six short slim slick slender saplings.
314) Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
315) Six slow snails saw six sick sheep.
316) Six small snakes sit on the thick stick.
317) Six smart sharks saw selfish shellfish.
318) Six swift Swiss ships swiftly shift.
319) Six short sweet sausages sizzling
320) Six Swiss ships swiftly shift.
321) Six thick thistle sticks tick.
322) Sixty six sick chicks.
323) Sixty six sick six-shooters.
324) Sixty six sick soldiers shooting.
325) Sixty six stickers on sixty six seats.
326) Slimy slugs slid up the slummy slides.
327) Slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
328) Sloppy skiers slide on slick ski slopes.
329) Sly Sam slurps Sally’s sheep soup.
330) Sly sheet slasher slashed sheets slyly.
331) Soft soap softens softly in salty water.
332) Some say shy shippers ship shy sheep.
333) Some shun sunshine.
334) Some sword sheaths seem short.
335) Stop Chop Shops selling Chop Shop chops.
336) Stretch slickly six sickly silky snakes.
337) Students study stenciling steadily.
338) Such strange strategic statistics.
339) Sue saw Cel sells seashells.
340) “Sure, the ship’s ship-shape, Sir!”
341) Surely the sun shall shine soon.
342) Susie sells Swiss sweets and silk shorts.
343) Susie saw cheese sauce.
344) Susie Sy should see six sheiks shrieking.
345) Susie’s short, short suit shrunk.
346) Swift swiftly shoved silvery shells.
347) Taft, tapping a top, gets tough on top.
348) Taylor tells tall tales by telephone.
349) Tea for the thin twin tinsmith.
350) Ten tan turtles turned tan in a tin tub.
351) Ten tarantulas tracked the train tracks.
352) Ten tadpoles tucked tightly together.
353) Ten tiny tin trains toot ten times.
354) Ten tiny turtles on a tiny tub turned tan.
355) Tennessee toads tamed testy tigers in Texas.
356) Terrified tomcats tottering on top of tall trees.
357) That bloke’s back brake-block broke.
358) That’s the grass that grows on grooves in grove.
359) The best breath test tests breath better.
360) The black baker burned the brown bread badly.
361) The bluff that bluffs was bluffed.
362) The bootblack brought the black boot back.
363) The bright bluebird brightly blinks.
364) The bull ran to the ball and kicked the cake.
365) “The bun is better buttered,” Bert muttered.
366) The busy bees buzz in the bush.
367) The cheap vase has a chipped base.
368) The colt crew rowed at cock’s crow.
369) The cruel ghoul cooks gruel.
370) The dim don dropped the drum.
371) The drain in the train dripped again and again.
372) The fame of plains is mainly on the wane.
373) The fool folds the foulard.
374) The fool pulls the pole full of holes.
375) The furry fly flitted from flower to flower.
376) The glum groom grew glummer.
377) The green gun and the grain can are gone.
378) The gun glue grew glum.
379) The horse’s hard hooves hit hard the high road.
380) The lone lover leaves the leafy lane.
381) The minx mixed a medicine mixture.
382) The maiden in green screamed for ice cream.
383) The male took the mail-order meal to the mill.
384) The moron was marooned in Morocco land.
385) The music made the muse sick.
386) The myth of Miss Muffet is a mystery to me.
387) The old cold scold sold a school coal scuttle.
388) The pair went to the fair to pat the fat mare.
389) The pickpocket picked picked pockets.
390) The pop to pep you up is the pop that pops.
391) The quack quit asking quick questions.
392) The queen coined quick clipped quips.
393) The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
394) The rapid rabid rabbit rubbed it.
395) The rope at the roof; the roof has a rope.
396) The saint in the scene was seen by the insane.
397) The sheep on the ship is in bad shape.
398) The shepherds share the shawl.
399) The sick cattle kicked against the pricks.
400) The singing sinner; the sinning singer.
401) The sinking steamer sunk.
402) The six scenic sightseers seemed sick.
403) The sixth sheep is surely sick.
404) The sixth sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
405) The strenuous struggle seemed superfluous.
406) The strenuous struggle strangles the strong.
407) The sun shines on shop signs.
408) The sunshine sends shadow shows.
409) The super supper of the super chauffer’s superb.
410) The wild wind whipped wharf wildly.
411) The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.
412) The third thickset thug thinks tactlessly.
413) The threaded thimbles thrilled Trina.
414) The top cop has a tough cough.
415) The troops tread the toilsome trail.
416) The wink of a wicked witch bewitched.
417) The winkle ship sank; the shrimp ship swam.
418) This crispy crust crackles crunchily.
419) Three thrushes thrilled three thieves.
420) Three thumping tigers tickling trout.
421) Three tiny twigs twined tightly.
422) Three trains tracked through a terrain.
423) Three tree twigs twined tightly.
424) Thrice times three; twice times two.
425) Tie twine to three tree twigs.
426) Tim, the tinsmith’s thin twin.
427) Tim threw Tom three thumbtacks.
428) Tiny timid toads trot to town.
429) To have peace, keep pace with what you face.
430) Tony took tiny Tonton to town to taste tasty tarts.
431) Toothsome tarts tempted Ted’s tranquility.
432) Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.
433) Train three tree-trimmers trim tall trees.
434) Trill true tunes to the troops at the train.
435) Troy Lee’s time is truly through.
436) Truly rural. Truly rural. Truly rural.
437) Try three thick thimbles to thaw.
438) Try to have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw.
439) Tweedle Dee’s and Tweedle Dumb’s fat thumb.
440) Twelve trim twin-track tapes.
441) Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
442) Twenty tiny typewriters typed in tiny type.
443) Twenty tots twisting through the turnstiles.
444) Twine twisted twigs twenty twirls.
445) Two new blue beans in a new blown bladder.
446) Two toddlers toasting tasty teacakes.
447) Two tots totally tired try to trot.
448) Two toy trains travel together to Toyland.
449) Typical tropical trivial trite trash.
450) Upper roller; lower roller.
451) Urgent detergent’s agents.
452) Val valued the valley violets in Viola’s vase.
453) Vina vainly viewed the vast, vacant vista.
454) Vincent vowed vengeance vehemently.
455) Walter gets water from the waiter.
456) Wedlock is a padlock.
457) Weird rear wheels whirling weirdly.
458) Weeping Winnie wails wildly.
459) Wesley whispered while Whitney whistled.
460) What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?
461) When all else fails, say ‘Hail to all ales!’
462) When in doubt, leave it out.
463) Which witch switched the switch?
464) Which witch wished which wicked wish?
465) Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
466) Wide will wear; narrow will tear.
467) Widow Wilma Wilbur wore a wrinkled wig.
468) Wild wolf went west for the winter.
469) Willful waste makes woeful want.
470) Will real wheels really wheel?
471) Will’s really weary on people who worry.
472) Willy wheezed woozily the wrong way.
473) Will you, Willy, will you?
474) Wood’s wooden whistle wouldn’t whistle.
475) Would Wanda wander when it’s windy, Wendie?
476) Wristwatch straps in a wristwatch shop.
477) X-ray checks clear chests.
478) Young Dan will be Dan when Old Dan’s done.
479) Zack zooms to the zoo on his zoomer.
480) Zelda Zebra sipped a zillion zippers.
481) Zizzi’s zippy zipper zips.
482) Zombies in the zoo shoo the zebra away.
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LONGER ONE-SENTENCE TONGUE TWISTERS
1)
A big black bug bit the little beetle but the
little beetle bit the big black bug back.
2)
A big black bug that bit a big black bear
made the big black bear bleed blood.
3)
A black cat blocked the way of the black
duck under the dock.
4)
A cat crept into the crypt, crapped, and
then crept out again.
5)
A champagne for real friends and real
pain for sham friends.
6)
A cherry year, a merry year, a palm year,
a dumb year.
7)
A cricket critic cricked his neck at a
critical cricket match last March.
8)
A crooning cow, a crowning hen both are
lost to a pouring rain.
9)
A cupcake cook in a cupcake cook’s cap
cooks cupcakes.
10)
A fireman in the firefighting force who was
forced to fight the fire was fired out by the
fire chief for his lack of fire.
11)
A gleam glimmered in the glen glowing
ghostly in the gloaming.
12)
A groundhog would hug all the ground he
could hug if a groundhog could hug ground.
13)
A man of words and not of deeds is like a
garden full of weeds.
14)
A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place
where plaice is pleased to be placed.
15)
A tangled web we weave when we
conceive to deceive.
16)
A white witch with a white watch watched
another white witch’s white watch.
17)
Advise him to take your advice to sit on his
seat rather than sit on someone else’s seat.
18)
Angry Andy angrily shouted at anteaters
eating ants at the anthill.
19)
As to the principal’s principle to present
two presents is too much to represent
once presence.
20)
At a nook, the rook and the boor moot on
the goof about the loot they took.
21)
Aye, I say, I see the eye of the one-eyed
sea-monster.
22)
Beatrice, together with her niece, Inez,
squeezed her knees and sneezed.
23)
Be considerate in considering the most considerable consideration to be
considered if you consider to consider.
24)
Be it the bee in the bay or the pest in a piece of paper paste, don’t just
roam in the room with a broom.
25)
Before you set the shit on the sheet, take
a seat and sit.
26)
Better be a something in a something than
a something or other in a something else.
27)
Bill Blue of Bay View bought blue balloons
from Bob Baylon’s Blue Bazaar.
28)
Billy Brown brought boiled bacon in a blue-
brown bag.
29)
Bill Cowper had a big cup of coffee in a colored
copper coffee cup at Cooper’s Coffee Shop.
30)
Black bat’s back was bitten black by a
big black bug.
31)
Black bug’s black blood; Brown bug’s
brown blood.
32)
Blue glue gun, green glue gun were
owned by Blue-Green Gang.
33)
Bobby Black’s black buddy buys
black bananas by bunch.
34)
Brave brigadiers brandished broad bright
blades, blunderbusses and bludgeons 60
35)
Can an active actor always actively act
accurately?
36)
Can clever cooks cook cocks or should
cooks not cook cocks?
37)
Can you can a canned can into an
uncanned can like a canner can can a
canned can into an uncanned can?
38)
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie
manager imagining managing an imaginary
menagerie?
39)
“Cancel the counsel given by the council.”
counseled by the counselor to the councilor.
40)
Cautious Carol choked carelessly on a chunk of cherry chocolate.
41)
Cautious courts cause costly court cases ‘cause caution in courts caused court
costs
to be costly.
42)
Change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion.
43)
“Cheep-cheep,” chirped the cheery chick
cheerfully.
44)
Cheerful children cooked chicken cubes
for Christmas carolers.
45)
Chief Chef couldn’t chop chocolate chips ‘cause
Chief Chef chipped his chocolate chip chopper.
46)
Chief Chit’s cheap chic caters chef’s cheap
chief’s corn caramel.
47)
Chop shops stock chops chopped by
the Stop & Shop Chop Shop.
48)
Clark, the clerk, chuckled and clucked
when he clicked the clock.
49)
Corraine rents a certain curtain for her
friend Cathrine who owns a canteen.
50)
Crafty Cliff cuts and crayons colorful and
creative Christmas cards.
51)
Cramping, creepy, screaming creepers,
creep up the creepy creek.
52)
Crocodile crawled cross crooked crawling
creek’s creeps.
53)
Daisies bloom where they find room and
this is true of people too.
54)
Dan stunned by standing stooped down
than stand and be stunned.
55)
Dashing Dorothy dawdled and doodled in
a daydream as she dusted down the dresser in the dorm.
56
Don’t let her litter her letter for by letting
her litter her letter, the letters she will
litter will double in a year.
57)
Don’t start a sentence with a ‘because’ because ‘because’ is a conjunction.
58)
Double-o-Seven was disheveled and
disillusioned and determined to discontinue his distorted distractions.
59)
“Due to the dew, Joe decided to cede the
seed,” said Mr. Sid.
60)
Edmon keeps a lemon and a minimum
of cinnamon in the aluminum pan.
61)
Extant insects snicker at extinct insect’s instincts.
62)
Fanny fried five fat fresh flying fish for Francis
Fowler’s father’s female friends from France.
63)
Fetch me the finest French-fried freshest fish Fanny‘s friend fries.
64)
Five fashionable females flying to France for fresh French fashions.
65)
Five fat frogs have eaten eighteen thin insects
then jumped over the pig fence made of fish pins.
66)
Five flashy flappers flitting forth fleetingly
found four flighty flappers flirting flippantly.
67)
Flor sitting on the floor saw the black bug
inside the black bag.
68)
For calling the cooling system maintenance
man an idiot, the caller was given a cold treatment by the cooling system
maintenance man.
69)
For friendship’s sake, she seeks the
sheik’s chef in the ship to shake six times.
70)
For lack of a lock the luck of a locker smith has slipped out of the dark.
71)
Four fishermen found for flounders –flippers
flapping furiously – faithfully following four floppy female fish.
72)
Four poor pupils cheer in their chair when told
their teacher will take care of their fare to fun fair.
73)
Freezers that freeze fresh fish stiff should
freeze fresh stuffed fowl fine.
74)
Generally speaking, General Gene
generalized the generalization of the general
agenda on the geniality of the genius guest.
75)
Genial Gloria gladly gave the glum girls their gamma globulin.
76)
Give Pip the gift of a grip top sock: a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.
77)
Granny’s grey goose greedily gobbled golden grain in Grandpa’s granary.
78)
Grazing goats graze in groves on grass that
grows in grooves in groves.
79)
Great crates create great craters, but great
craters create greater craters.
80)
Handsome Sam had to come to calm the
troublesome two-some asking for some alms.
81)
Having a call, putting a coal, making it cool,
are three different things I recall.
82)
He that losses his wife and a forthing has
a great loss of his farthing.
4
83)
“Help, help!” howled the harassed helper holding a huge hat and hollered
horribly.
84)
Her reasoning on the reaper who reaps
without a reaping machine was unreasonably reasoned with reasonable
reasonableness.
85)
Here, Mrs. Herr hears that her hair and her
heir’s ears are praised.
86)
Here, you’ll hear her say, “I’m holding the hair
of the hare!”
87)
His presence is the best present to
complement the compliment on the canvas
his canvasser canvassed.
88)
His tongue twisted with the tongue twister
twisting twist.
89)
How can you become considerate in considering the most considerable
consideration to be considered if you
won’t consider to consider?
90)
How do brown cows and browner sows take
their bows while they carouse around their
houses in their blouses?
91)
How many bagels could a beagle bake if
a beagle could bake bagels?
92)
How many boards could the Mongols hoard
if the Mongol hordes got bored?
93)
How many sheets could a sheet-slitter slit if
a sheet-slitter could slit sheets?
94)
How many slim slimy snakes would slither silently to the sea, if slim slimy
snakes
could slither silently?
95)
How much caramel can a canny cannibal
cram into a camel, if a canny cannibal can
cram caramel into a camel?
96)
How much can can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble can?
97)
How much dew could a dewdrop drop if
a dewdrop could drop dew?
98)
How much ground could a ground hog grind
if a ground hog could grind ground?
99)
How much oil can a gum tree boil if a gum
tree can boil oil?
100)
How much pot could a pot-roast roast if
a pot-roast could roast pot?
101)
How much web can a web browser browse
if a web browser could browse web?
102)
I always watch the watch in the stage play
of WHAT’S TO WATCH?
103)
I am thinking of something and that something I’m thinking is something I
used to think when I’m thinking of something.
104)
I know you believe you understand what you
think I said but I am not sure you realize that
what you heard is not what I meant and what
I meant is not what you understand.
105)
I was looking back to see if she was looking
back to see if I was looking back to see if
she was looking back at me.
106)
I wish I were what I was when I wished
I were what I am.
107)
I wish this rich fish dish was the richest fish
dish for the richest fish dish is the best fish dish.
108)
I’d rather watch the watch in the movie
‘WHAT’S TO WATCH?’ than watch the
match being matched with another match.
109)
If a black bug bleeds black blood, does a
blue bug bleed blue blood?
110)
If a chow chews shoes, how does he
choose which shoes to chew?
111)
If colored caterpillars could change their
colors constantly could they keep their
colored coat constantly?
112)
If I assist a sister-assistant, will the sister’s
sister-assistant assist me?
113)
If Sue sews shoes, should Sue choose
the shoes she sews?
114)
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot was
taught by a Hottentot tutor, should the tutor
get hot if the Hottentot tot hoots and toots
at the Hottentot tutor?
115)
If you marvel to marvel the marvelous marvel of marvels, you’ll marvel that
the marvelous marvel of marvels is you!
116)
If you notice this notice, you will notice that
this notice is not worth noticing.
117)
If you tell Tim to tell a tongue twister,
his tongue will be twisted as tongue
twister twists tongue.
118)
In extermination, the exterminator is
exterminated by exterminating another
exterminator.
119)
In familiarity, familiarize the unfamiliar
in order to be familiar.
120)
In reading readiness, the ready reader reads
the readily readable reading materials.
121)
In realism where realization is really real,
the realist realized the realistic reality.
122)
In reciprocity, to be reciprocal, reciprocally
reciprocate the reciprocating reciprocation.
123)
In the morning mountains; in the evening fountains.
124)
In their departure in the department
the departee silently departed from
their party for the departed.
125)
In there, they enter the rare rear of their
spare gear for their spear gun.
126)
Is it right to write the highlight of the rite requested by my neighbor Wright?
127)
Is it true that through the clue in the cat’s claw, they raided the dark-red-car
parked
in the dark part of the park?
128)
It is preferable for a professor to personify
himself profoundly and perfectly as a better performer than any other person
in his profession.
129)
Jolly Jovy jumped joyously juggling jellies
at Jollibee.
130)
Juan Ho who wants a magic wand, winds
up in the wind for wanting a magic wand.
131)
Kiss this key’s case in case the keys
are encased by Kris.
132)
“Knife and fork, bottle and cork”, that’s
the funny way to spell New York!
133)
Kris traces the rays and rests to race
in sack race.
134)
Leaping lizards like licking lovely lemon lollipops for lunch.
135)
Lift the leaf from the left before you leap to
the left with the leaf that you lift from the left.
136)
Lots of little London lamplighters light
London’s lot of little lamps.
137)
Love is a feeling you feel when you feel
you’re going to feel the feeling you’ve
never felt before.
138)
Lucky radio listeners rarely lose long
letters of close relatives.
139)
Many rains, many rowans; many rowans,
many yawns.
140)
Mel, the moody mailman moves mostly
metered mail.
141)
Meet my meek mate, McMitt, who loves
to eat meat and drink Milkmaid.
142)
Mighty Mike mixes milk in milk mixers
while keenly cleaning copper kettles.
143)
Mike’s mom makes marvelous
marshmallow milk malts.
144)
Miss Amis of Ozamis was amazed and
amused at the amazing amusement.
145)
Miss Concepcion’s misconception was
misunderstood by Mister Todd.
146)
Miss Misamis missed the missal, the missel
and the missile because of the mizzle.
147)
Miss Yu with a high I.Q. looks down on
Miss Loo with a low I.Q.
148)
Mister Twister’s sister, Leester, had
a blister, so his other sister teased her.
149)
Mr. Twister tried to train his tongue to twist
and turn and twit and twat to learn the letter “T”.
150)
Money spent on the brain is never spent
in vain.
151)
Moses McTruces of Los Angeles supposes his noses are roses but Moses
supposes erroneously.
152)
Mrs. Twain’s twins were seen riding in a
train with Mrs. Twain’s twin sister’s twins.
153)
Naïve Nanny Nancy needed nothing,
neither name nor nickname.
154)
Neither financier seized either weird species
of leisure.
155)
Nine nice night nymphs looking gladly at nine noblemen nibbling nuts.
156)
On Mondays Michael’s mother Maylene mingles mostly with married men
and women with no children.
157)
One way to outthink others is to make them think you think you’re not really
thinking what you’re trying to get them to think you think.
158)
Pamper damp scamp tramps that camp
under ramp lamps.
159)
Pastry Katie’s latest craze is making tasty
mayonnaise.
160)
Paul Sedd said,
“Pol Sid, stand near the pool and pull with full force the whole rope
through the hole in the roof.”
161)
Peek from the peak and see who’ll pick the
wool through the hole in the sea wall.
162)
Peter’s poodle was pulled out of a puddle
by a paddle.
163)
Peter Prangle picked four pecks of prickly
pringled pears.
164)
Please Pinpin spin the pin including the
pen painted pink by Serafin.
165)
Please place the pleated pressed pants
on the plain pressing plank.
166)
Poor Paul patiently peddled pickled
product to produce a pretty profit.
167)
Porky Fork puts the forty-four footy pots
on designated spots.
168)
Pound worth of fret never pay a quarter
worth of debt.
169)
Pour four teaspoonfuls of table salt
before you pour four pails of filled milk in
the four empty milk can.
170)
Practically, the practicability of the practical practice, if practiced, is
practicably practical.
171)
Proud Paul pestered the Pastor for
a promised prayer.
172)
Put the cup at the top of the pot inside
the room of the groom who used to put
the cup at the top of the pot on that spot.
173)
Puzzlers puzzling over puzzling puzzles
puzzle passing puzzlers.
174)
Queer questions with queer answers were
included in the qualifying examinations given quarterly to qualified
quinquagenarians.
175)
Questioning the questionable quotation
quoted by the bidder, the questor quickly
quit the ongoing bidding.
176)
Quinn’s twin sisters sing tongue twisters
that twist and turn twin sisters’ tongue.
177)
Rain on a window pane stains the paint of
the newly painted window pane
178)
Real weird rear wheels of a ten-wheeler truck with its four rear wheels
running flat.
179)
Reform the reformed reformative reformation in the reformatory.
180)
Remember man and keep in mind, a
faithful friend is hard to find.
181)
Requesting to read the rule for raising rabbits, Roger, running rapidly,
rounded
up a rare rabbit.
182)
Resisting to the arrest made by the arresting officer, Restie resisted to be
arrested.
183)
Resolve the resolvability of the resoluble
resolution.
184)
Room three hundred thirty three on the third floor rents for six dollars every
third Thursday.
185)
Sam Spy shadowed suspicious Sarah Short
so successfully she sacrificed swag, sable, and shoes, then scampered.
186)
Saucy Sally of Sesame Street scolded
sister Sue scathingly.
187)
Say, she and Jose seemed to stay to see the sea and the seashore, see?
188)
Sean McLean claimed he has never seen
his saint-like cousin sin in any scene.
189)
See the six sick small slick slim seals
sailing southward.
190)
“See the selfish shellfish,” said Susie
Sy near the sea.
191)
Seven small swans swam silently southward, seeing swift sailboats sailing
speedily seaward.
192)
Seventy shuddering sailors standing
as short, sharp, shuttering shocks
shake sailors’ splendid ship.
193)
Sha shops in the shop where Sunday
shoppers usually shop.
194)
Shallow ships showing signs of sinking
sail shoreward.
195)
She meant to cement the cement while cementing the pavement to pave the
way for improvement, that’s what she meant.
196)
She saw a saw near the see-saw at the zoo, so she took the said saw that she
saw near the see-saw at the zoo.
197)
She saw shiny soap suds sailing
down the shallow sink.
198)
She stares at the stairs the whole day through the hole in the hallway.
199)
She suffered a short sharp shock
while swimming in the sea, said she.
200)
She thought about her tooth when she
wanted to toot and learned the truth
about her throat.
201)
She was delightfully delighted with the lighted light when she alighted from
the
fully lighted Light Rail Transit.
202)
Should she shut summer shutters slowly or should she shut summer shutters
swiftly?
203)
Should six shaking soldiers share the
shattered shield?
204)
Shouldn’t sweet-scented shaving soap
soothe sore skin?
205)
Sir Russel full of zeal wishes to sail to sell the seal and see the sea for it
seems easy for Sir Russel to sail.
206)
Six small sharks swimming smartly
at shark-infested sea.
207)
Six sisters selling silk side by side to
six strangers sitting at the seaside.
208)
Sixty seven sailors serenely sailing a
ship at sea.
209)
Smarty Smurf smashed smelly smoky
smoke sardines.
210)
Snakes slipping and sliding on a growing
gleam, growing green.
211)
Soldiers’ shoulders shudder when shrill
shells shriek.
212)
Somebody should show Sonia Sue some strokes so she shall not sink when
she swims at the sea.
213)
Someone who doesn’t know anything but knows
he doesn’t know anything knows more than
someone who doesn’t know anything and does
not know he doesn’t know anything.
214)
Soon the sun was seen by the shy son of
shy Sheen at that scene.
215)
Stoop and swoop on the air, or loop to
group with a troop on the gusty poop.
216)
Surely she’ll sell the shiny sea shells she’s
soon shipping on sale at the seaside.
217)
Susie’s galoshes make splashes and sploshes and slooshes and sloshes as
Susie steps slowly along in the slush.
218)
Tall trees are trimmed by tree trimmers
who are trained to trim tall trees.
219)
Teens talking tricky tongue twisting
twisters are terribly tricky.
220)
Tell the tale of the longest tail on the movie: “The Thrill of the Thriller in
the Trail of the Trailer.”
221)
Ten tiny toddling tots trying to train
their tongues to trill.
222)
Teo’s throat throbs and thumps, thumps
and throbs.
223)
The amazing amusement amazed and
amused Miss Amis of Ozamis.
224)
The ancient fluorescent with favorable scent sent by Vincent to Miss
Millicent delights everyone though the lights went on and off.
225)
The auditor’s auditor audits the auditor
who audited another auditor.
226)
The baggage and the luggage, the cabbage
in the storage, were thrown to the garbage
by the hostage in the voyage.
227)
The bank book’s back cover is covered
black not blue.
228)
The bottom of the butter bucket is the
buttered bucket bottom.
229)
The bluff of the first bluffer that bluffs the second bluffer was bluffed by the
third
bluffer who is smarter than the latter.
230)
The bored member of the board wrote
an excuse slip and went to sleep.
231)
The boastful beast boasting his beast-like strength told his best friend beast
that he’s
the best of all the beasts.
232)
The broom in the room of the dorm
was thrown by the groom before dawn.
233)
The bug in the bag and the shoes in the
shows were seen at the last scene.
234)
The busy bishop shopped at the bee shop
of merry Marie who is equally busy in her
bee shop like the busy bishop who
shopped at her bee shop.
235)
The captain looking for a fountain went to
the mountain hoping he can find the
fountain he is looking.
236)
The checker of chick’s sex checks the
sex of six chicks after receiving
six checks from the buyer of six chicks
237)
The cheeky chief chef chattered to
the second chef as he cooked chicken
in the kitchen.
238)
The complainant complains that the
complaint he complained was ignored
in the Complaint Department.
239)
The cost of the sauce is higher at the
coast ‘cause the source of the sauce
is scarce at the coast.
240)
The crow flew over the river with a lump
of raw liver.
241)
The cutter and the cutler eat the cunner
and the cucumber.
242)
The damsel in distress is the damsel in
this dress.
243)
The deer hunter hunting for a deer hunted
a tiger instead of a deer.
244)
The defender defended the defendant who was depending on the defender on
the defense of his case.
245)
The demonstrators demonstrated demonstrations worth demonstrating at the
demonstration’s designated area.
246)
The diner who dined in a dining room
is dining again in the dining room with
another diner.
247)
The disguise of the disgusted man
only showed his undisguised disgust.
248)
The dishwasher washing dishes at the
dishwashing machine, washes the dishes
with another dishwasher washing dishes
at the dishwashing machine.
249)
The driver driving the fastest driving
car outdrives the drivers trying to outdrive
the driver driving the fastest driving car in
the driveway.
250)
The driver who drives with his co-driver
drives the car to the driveway.
251)
The drugged druglord was dragged outside
the drugstrore when he bragged that he
can drug the druggist inside the drugstore.
252)
The fellow who asks a pillow from his
fellow pillow-maker was given free pillow
for three by his fellow pillow-maker.
253)
The first class glass glazes when the
blazing sun blazes.
254)
The flight of the wild duck leads the flock
to fly and follow.
255)
The flyer furled the flaring flag and flung
it firmly from the fuselage.
256)
The foreman’s forefather’s friend’s foe
was forcibly fed with fodder foliated
with foliage and forcemeat for fortnight.
257)
The fracture was caused by the friction of
the faction on the function of the fraction.
258)
The furry butterfly floated from flower
to flower at the flower festival.
259)
The gambler gambols while gambling
at a gambrel roof.
260)
The great Greek grape growers grow
great Greek grapes.
261)
The gunman guns down the gunrunning
gangster who ran without a gun before
he was gunned down.
262)
The horrescent horripilation or horrid
horribleness of the horrible horror that
horribly horrified was horrific.
263)
The horseman lost his horse rein during
a heavy rain last evening.
264)
The huntress with a hunting watch hunts
the hunter who is hunting with his huntsman.
265)
The kin of Mrs. Huskin is asking how’s
your new house.
266)
The kitten in the kitchen caught the little
mouse in its little house.
267)
The lady passenger’s anger decreases
her hunger for a hamburger.
268)
The literary work of the auditor who
audited an editor was edited by the
editor who was audited by the auditor.
269)
The man to man is the man who can
man the man who knows to man the man to man.
270)
The man who knows most knows most
his own ignorance.
271)
The man who on his trade relies must either bust or advertise.
272)
The measure of love is to love without measure for to love with
measure
is not the measure of love.
273)
The mean men who mint the mint meant
to mint the mint they meant to mint.
274)
The meddlers’ meddler meddles the meddler meddling another
meddler.
275)
The niggard nigger niggles on the niggardliness of a nigger friend.
276)
The older soldier sitting on the boulder was touched in the shoulder
by the younger soldier.
277)
The opponent opposes the opponent opposing supposed opponent.
278)
The organization’s selection on my collection of quotations was used without
hesitation
with proper motivation from the
organization’s administration.
279)
The paper with a pepper was eaten
by the pauper.
280)
The payee and the payor went to the office of the city mayor to settle their
trouble.
281)
The photograph photographed by a photographer was
photographed again
by another photographer.
282)
The plant Platt plans to plant will be planted by the planter in Platt’s plain
plant site.
283)
The pony looked phony in this funny film about funny pony.
284)
The pressman pressed by the pressing press agent at the pressroom was
pressured to finish his presswork for press con’s press release.
285)
The pretty lass lying on the grass lost her eyeglass and some cash.
286)
The raiding team reading the red lettering on a red thing got rid of
the said thing after reading the red lettering on a red thing.
287)
The rattling of the ratter while ratting rattles the rattlesnake near the ratty
rattletrap.
288)
The recitative recitation was recited at the recital.
289)
The recognizance of the recognizable recognition was recognized by the
recognizer.
290)
The reflecting reflector reflects the reflexibility of the reflexible reflex.
291)
The retiree feeling tired retired from work as
a tireman.
292)
The rich reached the tough top to tap the stuff stocked at the stop and shop.
293)
The role of the ruling ruler’s ruler is to rule
the ruling rulers.
294)
The sale of Cecille’s small shell and Chell’s big shell was placed in a sealed
cell.
295)
The school’s president’s precedents and
the principal’s principles permit their
personnel personal appearance at the
capitol’s capital.
296)
The shape shifter, shaped like a ship,
shifts his shape to a shapely sheep.
297)
The show shown at the zoo shows four
pairs of shoes worn by a sow.
298)
The shy girl, standing at the center, can
wait no longer to stay in the corner with
another shy girl standing in the corner who was previously standing at the
center.
299)
The sky rider rides in a glider,
glides in a river, ends up in a cruiser.
300)
The sniper sniping on the pursuing troops was noticed by the latter’s sniper
sniping
for a sniper.
301)
The sower with a mower and the plumber
with a hammer took a shower at the
tower with a flower.
302)
The specific statistics of the pacific
speech survey was specifically surveyed
by the statistics surveyor.
303)
The stranger’s strange reaction
surprises everybody’s attention.
304)
The stranger who shopped shoes, shirts and
shorts was shocked when shot at the shop.
305)
The teacher teaching teacher’s teaching methods methodically teaches the
teacher’s teaching methods to the teachers who would teach the teacher’s
teaching methods to other teachers.
306)
The tracker tracked, tricked and trapped
the tricky trickster.
307)
The thing possessed is not the thing
it seems.
308)
The thunderstruck thundering thunderer thunders like a thunderbolt like a
thundering thunder!
309)
The tiger closed his claws, stood still and looked at his stewed food.
310)
The toaster of bread toasting a bread in
a bread toaster toasted a bread in a
bread toaster.
311)
The trainee trained by the trainor trains
inside the train as part of the training
in training any trainee.
312)
The vindictive vindicator vindictively
vindicating his vindicatory vindication.
313)
The wandering wanderer with a walker
woke her to walk for work.
314)
The window pane causes the widow’s
pain when she fainted on the painted
window pane.
315)
The winning even numbers overcoming
the odd numbers were computed with
a grin by those who failed to win.
316)
The woodchat and the woodchuck, the
woodcock and the wood duck met
the woodlark near the woodruff
317)
There goes the man who sells Joe’s
mango juice and Jew’s orange juice.
318)
There is so much good in the worst of us
and so much bad in the best of us that
it ill behooves any of us to find fault with
the rest of us.
319)
These tricky tongue twisting twisters
trip thrillingly off the tongue.
320)
They’re there till morn to steal the steel
but still they failed to steal the steel that
stood still beside another steel.
321)
They saw a great tall forest full of tree trunks
all speckled and sprottled and spotted, dotted
and splashed and slashed and hatched and crosshatched with shadows.
322)
Think the thing you’d like to think if the
thing you’d like to think is the thing that
will make you think if you think.
323)
Thirty three thunderbirds thrummed thrumpingly through the thickening
thicket.
324)
This funny and strange world is full of funny and strange people doing funny
and strange things for funny and strange reasons.
325)
Though the wind at the window smells like a dough, the duo closed the
window to hide from the widow.
326)
Three fleas sneeze when freezy breeze
made three trees freeze.
327)
Three thick things and two trim tapes in
the troops’ trailer trucks.
328)
Timothy Torrens of Jetafs twiddled tightly
twisted twine twelve times to test the twine.
329)
To be fair, the fare of the pair in the fair is
just fair.
330)
To be peaceably peaceful, the peace officer must peacefully keep pace with
peace.
331)
To rumble and grumble over life’s
terrible trouble makes one look horrible
and not honorable.
332)
To undress Andres send this dress to
his address.
333 )
Tracing the trace of the tracer, she traces
again the trace of the tracer to ascertain
if it is the trace of the tracer she is tracing.
334)
Tree transformers transformed tall trees
into wooden trains and modern trucks.
335)
”Troy plays with a toy paper plane in a place
which is plain,” plainly explained by Glenn, his twin.
336)
Try to tell Tim to toot Tommy’s trumpet
three times tomorrow at three.
337)
Twelve cheeky chimps chucked twelve
cheap chocolate chips in the cheap
chocolate chip shop.
338)
Typing ten-times-ten-tables takes more
time than typing ten-times-three.
339)
“Under the mother otter,” uttered the
other otter.
340)
Understanding the standing of the standing
committee, the standardization of the
committee’s standing policies is now
undertaken and under utmost consideration.
341)
Upon the midnight dreary, I pondered weak
and weary.
342)
Vulnerably vulnerable, the vulnerability
of the vulnerable vicar was put into test.
343)
Walking with a walker, she woke her up to
go with her straightly to the straight street.
344)
“Want makes strife between man and wife,”
reminded the marriage counselor to the
newly married couple.
345)
Watch the watcher watching the watchman
watching another watchman.
346)
Watch window-washers wash windows with
warm washing water.
347)
Watch witch Wintzel switch sandwiches
for Swiss wristwatches.
348)
We stand behind before we find what
those behind be for.
349)
Wendell, the laurel-crowned clown has
a knapsack strap
350)
What a sight to cite the site, sighed the
shy boy who has to accept the role to roll
in the mud except when he’s mad.
351)
What is life if full of care we have no time
to stand and stare?
352)
When the corn is in the shock, the rice in
the sack, the fish are on the rock.
353)
When winter comes, wise window washers
wash windows with warm washing water.
354)
“Where everyone goes, the grass never grows,” remarked teacher Mark.
355)
Whether the weather is good or bad, think
safe and sound the whole year round.
356)
Which wishy-washy washerwoman wants
to watch than wash?
357)
Whistling washers witchingly whistling wistfully wishing washing was
washed.
358)
Who will monitor the monitor of the monitor monitoring the monitor of
another monitor?
359)
“Why may we mellee when we may waylay?”
queried old maid Mely to her Mommy.
360)
Will willing Willy worry or will willing Willy worry not?
361)
Will Willy be willing to wish Will welcome words?
362)
Willy Wally Wong with a wheel went west
where Wilma Wong was waiting.
363)
With a butt, a bat, and a bit of beet, the vet
went to the battle with a beetle in a bottle.
364)
Your best-spent time is the time you spend
planning how best to spend your time.
365)
Youthful yeoman yodel Yule yarns while
yachting.
60 TWO-LINER TONGUE TWISTERS
1)
A rainbow at noon, put your hook in the corn.
A rainbow at eve, put your head in the sheave.
2)
A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay
A swarm in July is not worth a fly.
3)
“Are you copper-bottoming them, my man?”
“No. I’m aluminiuming them, Ma’am!”
4)
Bobby Blue blew a blue bottle.
Billy Blue blew a blue bottle, too.
5)
“Bring the brown baked bread back.”
Blake said, who bakes only black bread.
6)
Bobby bubbled a double bubbly bubble.
A double bubbly bubble bubbled by Bobby.
7)
Buyer, beware! Beware, buyer.
Buyer, be aware! Be aware, buyer.
8)
“Chill and drain!” “Chill and drain!”
Is what the children’s shouting.
9
Colin couldn’t clean the cloisters.
The cloiters were cloying.
10)
Eight cripples went through Cripple Gate.
Through Cripple Gate went eight cripples.
11)
Erning is earnest in keeping his earnings.
He yearns to buy a pair of earrings.
12)
Expect exactly.
Exactly expect excellence.
13)
Fair price for the fifth prize.
The fifth prize has a fair price.
14)
Floyd boiled the soiled coils in oils.
The soiled coils in oils Floyd boiled.
15)
Fred fed Ted bread.
Ted fed Fred bread, too.
16)
“Friendly fleas and fireflies fill our forest,”
Fely’s forester friend said.
17)
His son with a fan had fun in the pond.
In the pond, his son with a fan had fun.
18)
I see a sea down by the seashore.
Which sea do you see down by the seashore?
19)
If all was done before dawn,
It will be known before noon.
20)
If “ifs” and “ans” were pots and pans,
There would be no need for tinkers’ hands!
21)
If black beetle bled only black blood,
Will blue beetle bleed only blue blood?
22)
If silly Sally will shilly-shally,
shall silly Willy willy-nilly shilly-shally too?
23)
Is Big Billy with a big belly a big bully? Yes.
The big bully with a big belly is Big Billy.
24)
Jake Blake went to school late.
He passed at the gate to get the rake.
25)
My dame has a lame, tame crane.
My dame has a tame crane that is lame.
26)
Nap’s black bat is back on the mat.
On the mat is Nap’s black bat.
27)
Natty knits knotted night robes.
Knotted night robes Natty knits.
28)
One day, May and Ray went to the bay to play.
They found some hay on their way to the bay.
29)
Peter poked a poker at the piper.
The piper poked pepper at Peter.
30)
Rich and rare were the gems she wore.
A bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
31)
Ring out the old, ring in the new;
Ring happy bells across the snow.
32)
Rolly’s ruler rolls. If Rolly’s ruler really roll, what kind of ruler Rolly has?
33)
Sam sang a sad song.
A sad song Sam sang.
34)
Sarah sat sideways on a swing.
The swing swung Sarah sideways.
35)
Savory dainties lay on trays.
Always gain her neighbor’s praise.
36)
“Shoot, soldier, shoot!”
Sharpshooter Sam shouted sharply.
37)
Taste these tasty tidbits.
They titillate taste-buds temporarily.
38)
The boiler boils the boiling oil.
The boiling oil the boiler boils.
39)
The brown mouse is in the townhouse.
The townhouse has a brown mouse.
40)
The driver’s diver dives from a diving board.
From a diving board, the driver’s diver dives.
41)
The green grain made the old maid grin.
The old maid grinned due to green grain.
42)
The man with a cattle meets a woman with a kettle.
The woman rattles and smiles at the cattle!
43)
The new King’s queen.
The new Queen’s king.
44)
The pin he spinned gave him pain.
The pain came from the pin he spinned.
45)
There was once a man who walks so fast.
Anyone who races with him cannot walk as fast.
46)
They do the do’s and don’ts.
They don’ts the do’s and do’s the don’ts.
47)
Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grazing.
48)
Tiny Tim’s tinsel trims the tall tree.
The tall tree trimmed by tiny Tim’s tinsel.
49)
Tito totes two toy boats.
Two toy boats Tito totes.
50)
Two witches watched two watches.
Which witch would watch which watch?
51)
We sell what we can sell.
What we can’t sell we cancel.
52)
What a beautiful buzzy thing to be.
To be a busy buzzy bumblebee!
53)
What’s here was there.
That’s what was here.
54)
What noise annoys a noisy oyster?
A noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster.
55)
Which witch wished the wicked wish?
I don’t know which witch is which.
56)
Which watch is wristwatch?
Which watch is witch watch?
57)
Will Val value Will’s will?
Val will value Will’s will if Will’s will has value.
58)
Will Willy wander with Will or
will Will wander with Willy? We wonder.
59)
Winter eats what summer gets.
Winter finds out what summer lays up.
60)
Worm wiggles wildly due to windy weather.
Windy weather makes worm wiggle wildly.
(100) LONG TONGUE TWISTERS
1)
A cannibal maid made a marmalade out
of a housemaid.
Out of a housemaid, a marmalade was
made by a cannibal maid.
2)
A clipper shipped several clipped sheep.
Were these clipped sheep the clipper ship’s shipped, or just clipped sheep
shipped on a clipper ship?
3)
A good baker bakes good cookies.
If a good baker bakes good cookies,
How many good cookies can a good
baker bake?
4)
A little house well filled;
A little land well tilled;
A little wife well willed.
5)
A maid with a duster made a furious bluster dusting a bust in the hall.
Only to find when the bust was dusted, the bust was busted, the bust was the
dust!
6)
A mighty pain to love it is,
And it is pain that pain to miss.
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
7)
A selfish shellfish smelt a stale fish.
If the stale fish was a smelt,
Then the selfish shellfish smelt a smelt.
8)
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts
With barest wrists and stoutest boasts
He thrusts his fists against the posts
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
9)
“Are you allowed to speak aloud in the
hall way the whole day?”
asked the teacher as she teaches her.
10)
Betty bought a bit of butter,
but she found the butter bitter.
So she bought a bit of better butter,
to make the bitter butter better.
11)
Black Blake’s back brake-block broke
a bearing.
Did Black Blake’s back brake-block break
a bearing?
If black Blake’s back brake-block broke
a bearing,
Where’s the bearing Black Blake’s back break-block broke?
12)
Better never trouble trouble,
Until trouble troubles you;
For you only make your trouble
Double-trouble when you do.
13)
Can an actor act in an action-packed epic?
If an actor can’t act in an action-packed epic, where can an actor act?
14)
Catch a can canner canning a can as he does the can-can, and you’ve caught a
can-canning can-canning can-canner!
15)
Cecil likes to sell a pencil.
The pencil Cecil likes to sell looks like a pen with a seal rather than a pencil.
16)
Celia sat beside the seaside
Quite beside herself was she
For beside her on the leeside
No one sat beside her, see?
17)
Cris Cross crossed the criss-cross crossing.
The criss-cross crossing Cris Cross crossed.
When Cris Cross crossed the criss-cross
crossing
Where’s the criss-cross crossing
Cris Cross crossed?
18)
Do you dare to be bare?
Can you bear to be bare?
If you can’t bear to be bare,
Do not dare to bare.
19)
“Doyle, don’t boil the coil in oil,” said Noel, but too late because Doyle
already did boil the coil in oil.
20)
Eggs, butter, cheese, bread
Stick, stock, stone, dead.
Stick them up, stick them down,
Stick them in the old man’s crown.
21)
Elmer met a bear.
The bear was bulgy.
The bulge was Elmer.
22)
Fancy Nancy didn’t fancy doing fancy work.
But Fancy Nancy’s fancy aunt did fancy
Fancy Nancy doing fancy work.
23)
Four poor peasants of Davao
All went to sea in a bowl;
If the bowl had been stronger,
This tongue twister had been longer!
24)
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy.
Was he?
25)
Gibbs grabs crabs.
Crabs Gibbs grabs.
If Gibbs grabs crabs,
Where are the crabs Gibbs grabs?
26)
Good, better, best,
Never let it rest;
Till your good is better,
And your better best.
27)
Have you been told of the untold mot about
a moth and a motmot?
No. I was told that the untold mot about
a moth and a motmot remained untold.
28)
He missed the miss who missed
to join Miss Misamis.
The miss who missed to join
Miss Misamis was missing.
29)
He searches for riches and reaches his success.
The riches he searches make him reach
his success.
30)
He saw her sew her underwear.
If what she has sewn was shown to him,
will he still boast he saw her sew it?
31)
Here, they hear the sound of music.
Here, their hair, swayed by the fresh
air, touched their ears.
Lot of laughter followed here and there
and everywhere.
32)
How can a modifying modifier modifying another modifier modify?
A modifying modifier modifying another modifier can modify if the
modifying modifier modifying another modifier modifies.
33)
How can one can a can out of a can if there’s no can to can? Can one really
can?
If there’s a can to can, any one can can a can out of a can as anyone else can!
34)
How many cans can a canner can can cans?
A canner can can as many cans as a canner can, if a canner can can cans.
35)
How many deer would a reindeer reign if
a reindeer could reign deer?
It could reign as many deer as a reindeer reign if a reindeer could reign deer.
36)
How many streets can a sweeper sweep
if a sweeper could sweep streets?
A sweeper can sweep as many streets as
he could sweep if a sweeper could sweep streets.
37)
How much dough would Dale Dole dole
if Dale Dole could dole dough?
Dale Dole would dole as much dough
as Dale Dole could dole, if Dale Dole
could dole dough.
38)
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
He would chuck wood as much as he could and chuck as much wood as a
woodchuck would if a woodchuck would chuck wood.
39)
I am not the pheasant plucker,
I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate.
I am only plucking pheasants ‘cause
the pheasant plucker’s running late.
40)
I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare
When bare of hair he strips the hare
Right there I cry, “Forbear!”
41)
I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought I thought
wasn’t the thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought
had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn’t have thought so much!
42)
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish.
I hope to hope the hope you hope
to hope.
I dream to dream the dream you dream
to dream.
43)
I would if I could.
But I can’t, so I won’t.
I wish I could. I hope I can.
44)
I would if I could.
If I couldn’t how could I?
I couldn’t if I couldn’t, could I?
Could you if you couldn’t, could you?
45)
If a warmly warbling warbler warbles
to another warmly warbling warbler,
which warmly warbling warbler
warbles warmer?
46)
If a woodcut would cut wood, how many wood would a woodcut cut?
It would cut wood as much as it would if
a woodcut would cut wood.
47)
If Pop taught his tot
To talk before the tot could totter;
Ought the tot be taught
To say ‘ought’ or ‘naught’,
Or what ought to be taught her?
48)
If you let yourself get worried, hurried or flurried,
You’ll find yourself getting harried,
married and buried.
49)
If you must cross a cross-eyed cow
across a crowded cow crossing,
cross the cross-eyed cow across
the crowded cow crossing carefully.
50)
If you sail, Shirley, surely, she’ll sell the
shell and the seal.
The seal and the shell she’ll surely sell Shirley, if you sail.
51)
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
it’s slick to stick a lock upon your locker,
or some stickler who is slicker will stick you
of your liquor If you fail to lock your liquor
with a lock!
52)
If you understand, say “understand”.
If you don’t understand, say “don’t understand”.
So, if you understand but say “don’t understand”,
how would I understand that you
understand? Understand!
53)
It’s hard to wear in the hardware a white apparel.
A white apparel is hard to wear in the hardware.
54)
I was told he cannot hold the gold I sold
due to his cold.
Due to his cold, he cannot hold the gold
I sold, I was told.
55)
Look, the tool at the top of the pole
makes the top of the pole look tall.
The top of the pole looks tall due to
the tool at the top of the pole.
56)
Miss Susie Sy went to sea to see what she could see at sea.
But all Susie Sy saw at sea was what we
always see at sea – sea, see?
57)
“Nighty-night, knight,” said one knight
to the other knight the other night.
“Nighty-night, knight,” answered the other knight the other night.
58)
On mules we find two legs behind and two we find before.
We stand behind before we find what those behind be for.
59)
Once there was a dumb tricky trickster who tried to trick but was tricked by
his own trick.
Thus, the once dumb tricky trickster became the tricked dumb tricky
trickster.
60)
One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.
61)
Out of the chill and the shadow into the thrill and the shrine. Out of the
shadow, the chill;
Out of the shrine, the thrill. The shadow, the shrine, make the chill a thrill!
62)
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
63)
Recommend a recommendatory recommendation;
Recreate a recreative recreation and reconcile a reconcilable reconciliation
through a reconciliatory board.
64)
Roland Reynolds rolled a round roll
around a round room.
If Roland Reynolds rolled a round roll
around a round room,
Where’s the round room where Roland Reynolds rolled a round roll?
65)
Rolly rolled a round roll around.
If Rolly rolled a round roll around
Where’s the round roll Rolly rolled around?
66)
See a pin and pick it up,
All the day you’ll have good luck.
See a pin and let it lay,
Bad luck you’ll have all the day.
67)
Seven hundred seventy seven billion
Seven hundred seventy seven million
Seven hundred seventy seven thousand
Seven hundred seventy seven pesos and seventy seven centavos.
68)
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So, if she sells shells on the seashore,
I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
69)
She stops at the shops where I shop.
And if she shops at the shops where
I shop,
I won’t shop at the shop where she shops.
70)
Shelly Sherman shivered in a sheer, short, shirt.
Where’s the sheer, short, shirt Shelly Sherman shivered in?
71)
Swan swam over the sea,
Swim swan, swim!
Swan swam back again,
Well swum swan!
72)
Swim, Sam, swim,
Show them you’re a swimmer.
Six sharp sharks seek small snacks,
So swim, Sam, swim!
73)
The best suit for one is a suit that best
suits one.
A suit that best suits one is the best suit
for one.
74)
The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
The buttered bucket bottom is the
bottom of the butter bucket.
75)
The child doesn’t mind if he cannot find that kind of grind.
That kind of grind the child doesn’t mind if he cannot find.
76)
The doe eats the dough and the bear bears to be bare; two dogs sneer the
snare and grab the crab.
77)
The fair breeze blew;
The white foam flew;
The furrow followed free.
78)
The old school sold the school coal scuttle.
If the old school sold the school coal scuttle,
the school should scold and scuttle the old school coal.
79)
The prizes for this raffle are a rifle,
a riffle, and a waffle.
A waffle, a riffle and a rifle are the
prizes for this raffle.
80)
The sun shines on the window signs.
If the sun shines on the window signs,
When does the sun shine on the
window signs?
81)
The wretched witch watched a walrus washing.
Did the wretched witch watch a walrus washing?
If the wretched witch watched a walrus washing,
Where’s the washing walrus the wretched witch watched?
82)
There’s no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight;
For a night-light is just a slight light
On a light night like tonight.
83)
They want to saw the dead trees and sow
the seeds to show the earth they care.
If they want to show the earth they
care, when will they saw the dead trees
and sow the seeds.
84)
This snail is stale.
Its tale is stale.
This is a stale tale to tell.
85)
Though a kiss be amiss, she who misses
the kisses,
As Miss without kiss may miss being Mrs.!
86)
Three grey greedy geese,
Feeding on a weedy piece.
The piece was weedy,
The geese were greedy,
Three grey greedy geese.
87)
To be consistently consistent
We must not be inconsistent.
For if we are inconsistent,
How can we be consistently consistent?
88)
Vann Bond was banned to display in his big
van a big vague bold banner,
A big vague bold banner was banned for
display in the big van of Vann Bond.
89)
Want to have a copyright?
You have the right to copyright the copy
you write.
90)
What bee buzzed busily around the busy beehive?
A busy bee buzzed busily around the busy beehive.
91)
What can twist an untwisted tongue and
untwist a twisted tongue?
A tongue twister that can twist and
untwist can twist an untwisted tongue
and untwist a twisted tongue!
92)
What does Watt-watt White want?
Watt-watt White wants a pair of
white pants.
A pair of white pants is what Watt-watt
White wants.
93)
What matters really is not the years in your life, but the life in your years,
that’s what really matters.
94)
When Jack put his cap near the cup of
the cop with a cough,
Paul sat by the pool to pull the pole of
his pal while Chit who plans to cheat
set the table to sit on her seat.
95)
Who put the flower pots on spots
designated for flower pots?
Pepot.
Pepot put the flower pots on spots
designated for flower pots.
96)
Who sensed an insane cousin’s sin?
Sims Sheen.
Sims Sheen sensed his insane cousin’s
sin who seems sane since he was seen
in the scene before his sin was sensed
by his cousin Sims Sheen.
97)
Widow Sha saw Sheriff’s shoes on the sofa.
But was she so sure she saw Sheriff’s shoes on the sofa?
98)
Wondering why I wonder?
I wonder the wondering wonders
that wonder.
Will the wondering wonders
really wonder? I wonder.
99)
Wright, a right-handed fellow,
In writing “write” always wrote “rite”
Where he meant to write right.
If he’d written “write” right, he would
not have wrought rot writing “rite”.
100)
You can have –
Fried fresh fish,
Fish fried fresh,
Fresh fried fish,
Fresh fish fried,
Or, fish fresh fried.
1)
Tongue twisters with story lines:
A Flea and a Fly
A flea and a fly were imprisoned

in a flue,
so what could they do?
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
Said the flea, “Let us fly!”
And they flew through the flaw
in the flue.
Said the flea to the fly
as he flew through the flue,
“There’s a flaw in the floor of the flue.”
Said the fly to the flea
as he flew through the flue,
“A flaw in the floor of the flue
doesn’t bother me.
Does it bother you?”
“Not at all!” replied the flea to the fly
as he flew through the flaw in the floor
of the flue.
2)
A minute or two . . .
Oh, what to do to die today at a minute or two ‘til two. A thing distinctly hard
to say yet harder still to do. For they’ll beat a tattoo at twenty to two with a
rattatta, sattatta, tattatta too! And the dragon will come when he hears the
drum at a minute or two ‘til two today. At a minute or two ‘til two.
3)
“A robber”
A robber with a rubber mask
robbed the man
wearing a rubber shoes.
The man with a rubber shoes
was robbed by a robber
wearing a rubber mask.
4)
A Shooting Suit
A shooting suit that’s suitable
for shooting,
Should be made of a suiting
that is suitable.
If not made of a suiting that’s suitable,
Then that shooting suit’s not suitable
for shooting!
5)
“Auditing Auditor”
If an auditor audits another auditor,
will he audit the auditor he is auditing
the way the auditor he is auditing
audits another?
Or, will the auditing auditor audit in his
own way of auditing regardless of
whether the person being audited is an
auditor or not?
6)
“Bank in the bank”
Can you bank in the bank that you bank?
If you cannot bank in the bank that you bank, it’s useless to bank in your
bank. Unless you can bank in the bank that you bank, do not bank in the
bank.
7)
“Ben, Glenn and Warren”

Ben has a pen.
Glenn has a hen.
Warren has both a pen and a hen
different from the pen of Ben
and the hen of Glenn.
Ben’s pen, Glenn’s hen,
and Warren’s pen and hen.
8)
Betty Botter’s Butter and Batter
Betty Botter bought some butter.

But she said,
“This butter is bitter. If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better
butter will make my bitter butter better.”
So, Betty Botter bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter;
And she mixed it with her bitter butter
And put it in her batter.
That’s how Betty Botter got a better
batter out of her bit of bitter butter.
9)
Big Brod Black Brush

Brad broke big brod’s big black bath brush
So Brad bought big black bath brush
for big brod.
The big black bath brush Brad bought will replace the big black bath brush
of Brad’s big brod that Brad broke.
10)
Bill and the Billboard
Bill had a billboard.

Bill also had a board bill
The board bill bored Bill,
So Bill sold his billboard
And paid his board bill.
Then the board bill
No longer bored Bill.
But though Bill had no board bill,
Neither did Bill have his billboard!
11)
“Bill and Dong”

Bill and Dong at the building
are building a building inside
the building; and the building
Bill and Dong are building
inside the building is something
that Bill and Dong cannot build
outside the building.
12)
“Bill’s bail”
Bill posted a bail to get a bill for a bale and another bill for the bell of the
belle.
The bell of the belle was given by Bill who posted a bail to get a bill for a
bale and another bill for the bell of the belle named Annabel Anvil.
13)
“Bill’s ball”
Bill has a ball. It fell into the well.
Bill called for Willy to get the ball
that fell in the well.
But Willy said, “Well, it’s well
to forget the ball. Let the ball
that fell in the well, stay in the well.”
14)
Bitter Biting Bittern
A bitter biting bittern

Bit a better brother bittern,
and the better bittern bit the bitter
biter back.
And the bittern, bitten by the better
biting bittern, said:
“I’m a bitten bitter biting bittern,
bitten better now!”
15)
“Boredom”
What a boring day!
The bored board member boarded a
taxicab with a bored taxi driver who
gets equally bored with the bored
board member who boarded his
taxicab due to boredom.
What a bore!
.
16)
“Box of toys”
Roy and Joy have a box of toys:
a top, a mop, and a pot.
They hop and hop with the top.
Then Roy placed the top on top
of the pot over the mop.
17)
“Candies and Cookies”

My nieces buy the candies
and the cookies by pieces.
If they buy the candies
and the cookies by pieces,
how many pieces will they get for
sixty-six pesos, if sixty-six pesos
is equivalent to sixty-six pieces
of candies and sixty-six pieces
of cookies?
18)
“Captor Captured Captive

Captive Captured Captor”
At first, it was
“CAPTOR CAPTURED CAPTIVE”.
Later, the captor who captures the
captive was captured by the
captive’s capturing beauty,
so the captor who captured the
captive is now…
“CAPTIVE CAPTURED CAPTOR”.
19)
“Defective Detective”
The defective detective defectively
detecting a defective detector.
A defective detector was defectively
detected by the defective detective.
20)
“Doctor the doctor”
If one doctor doctors another, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor
the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Or, does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
(In short, his way or my way?)
21)
“Don’t Despair”
Don’t despair and do not fear.
All I want is a pear and a pair of spear
to count the fir tree on three counts.
One, I want a wand;
Two, too long for a toe;
Three, a tray from tree.
Oh, that’s funny! What funny?
Where’s my fan? What a pun!
22)
“Dreaming Dreamer”
The dreaming dreamer dreams the dream he doesn’t dream to dream but
doesn’t dream the dream he dreams to dream.
So, when the dreaming dreamer dreams the dream he doesn’t dream to dream
but doesn’t dream the dream he dreams to dream, he dreams not to dream
anymore dream to dream.
But when the dreaming dreamer dreams the dream he dreams to dream, and
doesn’t dream the dream he doesn’t dream to dream,
he dreams to dream more dreams to dream.
23)
ESAU WOOD
ESAU WOOD sawed wood.
ESAU WOOD would saw wood.
All the wood ESAU WOOD saw
ESAU WOOD would saw.
In other words, all the wood
ESAU WOOD saw to saw,
ESAU sought to saw.
Oh, the wood WOOD would saw!
And oh! the wood-saw with which
WOOD would saw wood.
But one day WOOD’S wood-saw
would saw no wood, and thus the
wood WOOD sawed was not the wood
WOOD would saw if WOOD’S
wood-saw would saw wood.
One day, ESAU saw a saw saw wood
as no other wood-saw WOOD saw
would saw wood.
In fact, of all the wood-saws
WOOD ever saw saw wood
WOOD never saw a wood-saw that would
saw wood as the wood-saw WOOD saw
saw wood;
and I never saw a wood-saw that would
saw as the wood-saw WOOD saw would
saw, until I saw ESAU WOOD saw wood
with the wood-saw WOOD saw saw wood.
Now, WOOD saws wood with the
wood-saw WOOD saw saw wood!
24)
Fisher, the young fisher
A fitful young fisher named Fisher

once fished for some fish in a fissure
till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in –
Now, they’re fishing the fissure
for Fisher.
25)
Fly in Flo’s flat
A fly fled fat Flo’s flat.
A flea fled fat Flo’s flat.
Did the fly or the flea
flee fat Flo’s flat first?
A fly flew fast Flo’s flat
And a fly flew fast fat Flo.
Is the fly that flew fast fat Flo,
The same fly that flew fast
Flo’s flat?
26)
Five Brave Maids
As I went into the garden

I saw five brave maids
Sitting on five broad beds
Braiding broad braids.
I said to these five brave maids
Sitting on five broad beds
Braiding broad braids,
‘Braid broad braids, brave maids.’
27)
“Funny Fanny”
To have fun, funny Fanny is fond of making
fan near the pond out of a frying pan.
Out of a frying pan, near the pond, funny
Fanny is fond of making fan to have fun!
28)
Tongue twisters with story lines
If you cross
If you cross a cross across a cross,
Or cross a stick across a stick,
Or cross a stick across a cross,
Or cross a cross across a stick,
Or stick a stick across a stick,
Or stick a cross across a cross,
Or stick a cross across a stick,
Or stick a stick across a cross,
What a waste of time!
29)
IF
If many men knew what many men know;
If many men went where many men go;
If many men did what many men do;
The world would be better
I think so; don’t you?
30)
“Imagine, Emma Jean”

Just imagine, I was imagining an engine,
When Emma Jean came rushing with an
engine I was imagining.
So, when Emma Jean came rushing
with an engine I was imagining,
I cannot just imagine why I was
imagining such kind of engine. . .
For such kind of engine is not
worth imagining at all.
31)
Knott knitter knotter

Knott could not knit, so he invented a knitter called the knott knitter, but the
knott knitter would not knit knots. So Knott invented an attachment for the
knott knitter called the Knott Knitter Knotter. When Knott attached the knott
knitter knotter to the knott knitter, no man could knit knots like Knott knit on
the Knott knitter knotter.
32)
Kris and Cris

Kriz Cruz kissed Chris Cross
but Chris Cross crossed Kriz Cruz
so Kriz Cruz’s kris criss-crossed
Chris Cross.
Now, krissed Chris Cross’s crossing
kisses caress Kriz Cruz no more.
33)
“Mother Goose”
Mother Goose goes to Ghost Town
to scold the goose who pretends
to be a ghost.
The goose who pretends to be
a ghost will be scolded by
Mother Goose when she goes
to Ghost Town.
34)
Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside
Mr. Inside went over to see

Mr. Outside and called to Mr. Outside
outside.
Mr. Outside answered Mr.Inside
from inside and told Mr. Inside to come
inside. Mr. Inside said “NO”, and told
Mr. Outside to come outside.
Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside
argued from inside and outside about
going outside or coming inside.
Finally, Mr. Outside coaxed Mr.
Inside to come inside.
Then both Mr. Inside and Mr.
Outside went outside.
They walked side by side to the
riverside.
35)
Mr. See and Mr. Soar
Mr. See owned a saw and

Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See’s saw soared Soar’s
seesaw before Soar saw See
which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See’s saw
before See sawed Soar’s seesaw
See’s saw would not have sawed
Soar’s seesaw.
So See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw.
But it was a shame to see Soar so sore
just because See’s saw sawed
Soar’s seesaw.
36)
Needles
I need not your needles,
they are needless to me;
For kneading of needles
were needless, you see;
But since my trousers
needed to be kneed,
I then should have need
of your needles indeed.
37)
“New hose”
Who used the new hose?
The new hose was used by the host
who is used to use a hose.
The said host, whose previous hose
was lost by his boss, used the new
hose he was not supposed to use.
38)
Nott and Shott

Neil Nott was shot. And Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot.
But Shott says he shot Nott.
0
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,
or Nott was shot, If the shot Shott shot shot
Shott, then Shott was shot, not Nott.
However, the shot Shott shot
shot not Shott – but Nott.
39)
“Pitcher, the pitcher”
The pitcher named Pitcher pitches a pitcher.

The pitcher pitched by a pitcher named Pitcher was pitched by another
pitcher who wished to pitch the pitcher pitched by the pitcher named
Pitcher.
Because of this, the picture of the pitcher named Pitcher, and the picture
of the pitcher pitched by the pitcher named Pitcher were not shown to
other pitchers who also wished to pitch the pitcher
pitched by the pitcher named Pitcher.
40)
“Plan to plant”
If you plan to plant a plant
do not just plan to plant a plant.
Plan to plant more plants to plant
if you plan to plant.
If you plan to plant more plants to plant,
be sure you have more plants to plant.
If you have few plants to plant,
your plan to plant more plants to plant
will only be up to a plan!
41)
“Roasters and Coasters”
Eight roasters are to ride in eight coasters but four coasters out of eight
coasters are out of order.
So the eight roasters decided to divide their numbers: four roasters will take
the four coasters that are in good order; the other four roasters will fix the
four coasters that are out of order.
42)
Short, Little, Long

A tall girl named SHORT
long loved a big Mr. LITTLE
But Mr. LITTLE, thinking little
of SHORT,
loved a little lass named LONG.
To belittle LONG,
SHORT announced she would marry
LITTLE before long.
This caused LITTLE shortly to marry LONG.
To make a long story short,
did tall SHORT love big LITTLE less
because LITTLE loved little LONG more?
43)
“Square box”
There is a square box in the stairway.
In the square box in the stairway are
a squash, a squib and a dried squid.
A dried squid, a squib, and a squash
are all in a square box.
44)
“Submission of the decision”

The preparation for the submission
of the decision of the delegation
is not the intention in the conduction
of the interrogation during the
inauguration where the situation
being mentioned is part of the occasion
of such celebration in commemoration
of the said participation in the
preparation for the submission
of the decision of the above-
mentioned delegation.
45)
“Sue to sue”
Sue sought to sue the owner of the sow, but the owner of the sow sought Sue
not to sue.
Since the owner of the sow sought Sue not to sue, so Sue who sought to sue
the owner of the sow decided not to sue.
46)
“Sue Witts, the witch”

Which witch switched the switch?
The Swiss witch named Sue Witts
switched the switch.
The switch was switched by the
Swiss witch named Sue Witts.
It was Sue Witts, the Swiss witch,
who switched the switch.
47)
“Super Supper”
The shopper’s super supper suffers
when seventy seven shoppers
shopping at the Shoppers’ Supermart
shopped all the food stuff intended
for the shopper’s super supper at
the Shoppers’ Supermart.
48)
“Teo and the straw”

Is it true that Teo threw the straw and three free throws?
Teo did throw the straw and three free throws.
If Teo did throw the straw and three free throws,
Where’s the straw Teo threw if it is true?
“It’s true,” said Andrew, “Teo threw
the straw and three free throws.”
“The straw Teo did throw was given to Timoteo.”
49)
The Bear and the Boar
Once upon a barren moor,

There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar,
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
That boar that bored him on the moor.
And so one morn he bored the boar –
That boar will bore the bear no more!
50)
The Bold Bald Bear
Who bit the bold bald bear on the

shoulder on the boulder and made the
bold bald bear on the boulder bawl?
A big black bug bit a bold bald bear
on the shoulder on the boulder and
made the bold bald bear on the boulder
bawl and bled blood badly.
51)
“The Botfly and the Butterfly”

The botfly and the butterfly fly over
the bottle and the butter.
The botfly flies over the butter;
The butterfly flies over the bottle.
When their fly friend asked
why the botfly did fly over the butter
and not over the bottle,
and the butterfly over the bottle
and not over the butter,
they reply: “We would like to multiply!”
52)
“The Cake”
Mother baked a cake.
She gave the cake to Jake at the
gate to take the cake to the lake.
But since it’s too late,
Jake failed to take the cake
Mother baked to the lake.
53)
“The Dishwasher”
The dishwasher washing dishes at the
dishwashing machine, washes the dishes
with another dishwasher washing dishes
at the dishwashing machine section.
54)
“The Fat Cat and the Fat Rat”

The fat cat sat on the floor mat near
the fat rat.
The fat cat that sat on the floor mat
near the fat rat
saw the fat rat near the floor mat
before the fat rat can notice the fat cat
that sat on the floor mat.
The fat rat doesn’t want to be caught
by the fat cat that sat on the floor mat
and because the cat and the rat
are both fat, they pat each other’s fat!
55) Tongue twisters with story lines:

“The Fortunate Fortune-Hunter”
Fortunately, the fortune of the fortunate fortune-hunter was forwarded by the
forwarder to the faithful foster-brother of the fortunate fortune-hunter.
The Fortunate Fortune-Hunter . . .

Unfortunately, the fortune of the fortunate fortune-hunter forwarded by the
forwarder to the faithful foster-brother of the fortunate fortune-hunter was
unknowingly forwarded by the faithful foster-brother to another fortune-
hunter who is a rival of the fortunate fortune-hunter.
Fortunately, the fortune of the fortunate fortune-hunter forwarded by
the forwarder to the faithful foster-brother of the fortunate fortune-
hunter who unknowingly forwarded to another fortune-hunter who is a
rival of the fortunate fortune-hunter was recovered intact by the
fortunate fortune-hunter.
Thus, the fortune of the fortunate fortune-hunter was forwarded again by the
forwarder to the faithful foster-brother of the fortunate fortune-hunter who is
now more careful in accepting from the said forwarder whatever is to be
forwarded because what happened previously must not happen again.
56)
The Knocker-up
We had a knocker-up
And our knocker-up
had a knocker-up
And our knocker-up’s
knocker-up
didn’t knock our knocker-up.
So our knocker-up
didn’t knock us up,
‘cos he’s not up!
57)
“The Leather”
The leader left the leather
in the corner near the ladder.
The leather left by the leader
in the corner near the ladder
was put in the dresser by
the former sweeper who used
to gather things that scatter.
58)
“The Rancher and His Bags of Money”

The rancher brags his bags of money in the bank.
The banker who keeps the bags of money the rancher brags losses the bags of
money the rancher brags to the bank robbers who robbed the bank who heard
the rancher brags his bags of money in the bank.
That’s why, the bags of money in the bank owned by the. rancher who
proudly brags his bags of money in the bank was lost by the
The Rancher and his bags of money . . .
banker to the bank robbers who robbed the
bank who heard the rancher brags his bags of money in the bank.
So, if you hear a rancher who’ll brag his bags of money in the bank, such
bags of money in the bank are no longer in the bank!
59)
“The Stuff”
A staff member holding a stopper

stops near the ‘Stop and Shop’
to look at the stuff.
The stuff was a stopper held by a
staff member who stopped to look
at the stuff near the ‘Stop and Shop’.
60)
The Toads
1.
A three-toed tree toad loved a
two-toed she-toad.
Unfortunately, the two-toed she-toad
did not love the three-toed tree-toad.
The three-toed tree-toad tried three times to
win the love of the two-toed she-toad but
the two-toed she-toad told the three-toed
tree-toad that she loved only a fat, fickle frog.
2.
A toad loved a she-toad that lived up in a tree.
She was a three-toed tree toad, but a two-toed was he.
The two-toed toad tried to win the she-toad’s
friendly nod,
For the two-toed toad loved the ground on
which the three-toed tree-toad trod.
But no matter how the two-toed toad tried,
he could not please her whim.
In her three-toed bower,
With her three-toed power,
The three-toed she-toad
vetoed the two-toed toad.
61)
“The Toe of the Doe”

Is it true that due to the dew the toe of the
doe turned blue?
No, it is not true that due to the dew the toe of the doe turned blue but the toe
of the doe turned blue due to the glue.
It is the glue and not the dew that turned to blue the toe of the doe.
So, if somebody will ask if it is true that due to the dew the toe of the doe
turned blue, you know now that it is not due to the dew but due to the glue
the toe of the doe turned blue.
62)
“The Wandering Wanderer”

The wandering wanderer wondering on the wonder of wonders
wonders how the wonder of wonders wonders.
“Oh, what a wonder of wonders to wonder!” wondered the wandering
wanderer
wondering on the wonder of wonders.
63) Tongue twisters with story lines:

“The Woman and The Money Changer”
A woman wants her money to be changed by a money changer who
happens to be short of change.
The money changer wants to change the woman’s money even though
he’s short of change.
The woman thinking that the money changer is trying to short-change
her, doesn’t want her money to be changed by the money changer who is
short of change.
But the money changer who is short of change still wants to change
the woman’s money.
This angered the woman who is changing her money from a
money changer who is short of change and which she believed is trying to
short-change her.
The money changer explained he is not trying to short-change the
woman. He is just short of change.
They had an exchange of words. And the woman, who wants her
money to be changed, left the booth of the money changer who is short of
change, with her money unchanged.
64)
Tie the tie

Tommy Thai tried to tie his tie;
But tugging too tight tore his tie.
Tom turned to Ted
Told Ted to try to tie the tie
Tommy tried to tie.
Ted tied the tie that Tommy tried to tie
But Tommy turned to Tom
To untie the tie
That Ted tightly tied.
65)
To sit in solemn silence

To sit in solemn silence in a dim dark dock
In a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper
on a big black block.
66)
“Trace the trays”

She tries to trace two trays under
those trees but it’s hard to trace
the trays under those trees because
there’s no trace of two trays to trace
under those trees.
67)
Tutor and Tooters

A tooter who tooted the flute,
Tried to tutor two young tooter
to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
“Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two young tooters to toot?”
68)
Twister of twists
A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
And the twist that he twisted was a twisted twist;
Now, in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
The twist that untwisted would untwist the twist.
69)
Two Boot Blacks

Two boot blacks, a white boot black and a black boot black, stood together doing
nothing.
The white boot black proposed that he should black the
boots of the black boot black. The black boot black was perfectly
willing to have his boots blacked by the white boot black.
So the white boot black began to black the boots of the black
boot black.
Two Boot Blacks . . .
But when the white boot black had blacked one boot of the
black boot black, he declined to black the other boot of the black
boot black, until the black boot black had blacked both boots of the
white boot black.
However, the black boot black refused point blank to black
the boots of the white boot black, and said he didn’t care whether
the white boot black blacked the other boot black or not.
He considered that one boot blacked was enough for a black
boot black, and that a black boot black with one boot blacked was
better than a white boot black with no boots blacked.
Then the white boot black called the black boot black a black
blackguard.
Of course, when the white boot black began blacking the
character of the black boot black, the black boot black began
blacking the face of the white boot black all black with the
blacking on the boot the white boot black blacked, and the white
boot black blacked the black boot black back.
Two Boot Blacks . . .
When the Society of Black and White Boot Blackers

considered the matter, they described the conduct of both boot
blacks as the blackest affair that had ever blackened the pages of
boot-black history.
70)
Undertaker
An undertaker undertook to
undertake an undertaking.
The undertaking that the
undertaker undertook
was the hardest undertaking
the undertaker ever undertook
to undertake.
71)
Vincent Strauss
Vincent Strauss, beset by stress
and strife,
begged this single boon of life –
“Give me half a chance!”
So, half a chance was all he got!
72)
Weather
Whether the weather be fine or
whether the weather be not;
Whether the weather be cold or
whether the weather be not;
We’ll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not.
73)
“Whistle to whistle”
The kid in the castle wishes
to whistle a new whistle.
A new whistle the kid in the castle
wishes to whistle.
“What a whistle to whistle,”
whispered the kid in the castle.
74)
“Young Nobel”
Young NOBEL once had tried
to pronounce the following
with pride:
THE DOUBLE NOBLE NO BELL
NOVEL ABOUT NAVEL
HAS NO BILL.
To which Young Nobel added:
THE ABLE IF ABLE CAN ABLE.
MORE ON UNIQUE TONGUE TWISTERS
(Hausmann’s Pronunciation Exercises)
Below are some tongue twisters that will help one to

remedy vowel and consonant defects in speaking.
1) Open A or Dipthongal A
A great way to break plates is to take plates of great weight in great haste,
facing or gazing or gaping one way, while pacing or hastening another way.
ooOoo
Arrange the tray, let it stay until the waiter goes away.
ooOoo
Detonate and reverberate and disintegrate in their changed state before it’s
too late.
2) Broad AW (a)
The awful fall of Orphan Paul, a kid of four.
ooOoo
The galling of the warden by all the calling and all the hauling seemed more
appalling.
ooOoo
3) Long E (e)
We feel like having deep sighs or weeping or screaming or heaping weird and
eerie contortions and immediately pleading: “Please repeat” when we hear
open “e’s” so meanly treated.
ooOoo
It grieves me so dearly to sweep the piece of green-cheese; to greet so queerly
and to sweep the streets with such unseemly zeal.
4) Long O (o)
The story is told of an old scold or a gold rogue or an ever-bold

soldier who rode a boat or who rode in a boat along the coast of Rome.
Although Rome boasts of no coast and although we don’t hold and are loathe
to be quoted as wrong, still the story is told, mostly to show that the scold or
the rogue, or the soldier rode in a boat or was dozing or mopping a boat, we
are only supposed to note that the mass of the boat with push and jolt and
smote the stony shoal that hover, that the horse brought and the stone broke a
hole in the boat.
The close of the story is not known but we hope that another row-boat
in sight or that the scold or the rogue or the soldier groped and almost have
his clothes only soaked.
5) Short or Closed O
“KNOTT and SCHOTT”

Knott and Schott were on a cot in a barber shop when a box lodged on
the top of a clock dropped like a hot bomb on Schott.
Schott was shocked and he sobbed as his socks were splotched by the
bottle of scotch that was on the box.
Knott was not shocked but he sobbed, not for the blotches on Schott’s
sock – for blotches and spots come out with a wash – but Knott sobbed for
the waste of scotch he could not stop.
Knott got up from his cot and got the mop to mop up what he could
not stop of the waste of scotch.
And Schott was mocked in the barber shop for being shocked at the
box that dropped from the top of the clock.
Then Schott got hot and said it was a plot to blotch his socks and what
not and blamed Knott.
Knott was commonly calm and moderate but now he was not. He got
up
from the cot and with the mop took a shot of Schott.
Schott dodged and then bottles and boxes and odds and ends of the
barber stock began to hop in the barber shop.
And then the barber got hot and said that their conduct was an awful
blot on the name of the barber shop and said he would flog both Knott and
Schott and have them locked up if they did not stop.
Then a mob flocked about the barber shop and they called a cop. The
cop came on the trot and asked who was Schott. Some said Knott was Schott.
Others said Schott was Knott and Knott was not Schott.
The cop asked Knott if he were Schott or not, and Knott said Schott
was Schott and he was Knott. Then the cop got hot.
But the mob that had flocked to the barber shop wondered a lot
whether or not both Schott and Knott had a lot of the grog or what was in the
box before it had dropped from the top of the clock in the barber shop!
6) Open U (u or oo)
In our gloomy mood we would call him a goose, put his head
in a noose and let him loose.
ooOoo
It behooves the prudent student who chooses to be imbued

through and through with an aptitude for fluent elocution.
ooOoo
Do not confuse and be easily fooled and duped into brutal

errors saying “pool” for “pull”, “stowed” for “stood”.
ooOoo
7) Sibilant and Sound S (s and z)
He stresses his “z’s” and pronounces his “s’s” at the ends of words
and syllables and doesn’t hesitate to use exercises exercising ways of using
“s’s” at the ends of words and syllables.
ooOoo
He says it seems as easy as it is, but it doesn’t seem as easy as it is nor
does what he says it seems easy, seems as easy as he says it seems it is.
ooOoo
The causes or reasons why it doesn’t seem as it is, are the puzzling,
tantalizing cases of “s’s” in words as in “please” which has sizzling sounds
as the buzzing of bees as they whiz by one’s ear as in flash plus similar words
whose “s’s” of reptiles and the words with double “ss” whose sound is
sometimes “zz” and the cases of “z’s” and sometimes this “sh” in ashes.
8) Obscure R
Her “r’s” burst forth with rolling, rumbling tremors like the rattling of
a typewriter or the chattering of persons shivering in a freezing temperature
or shuddering from very great fear.
However, the error of rolling “r’s” is not a terrible error. (But then,
these lesser errors are not encouraged to occur.)
A TWISTER
The twain that, in twining, before in the twine
As twines were intwisted; he now does untwine;
The twain inter-twisting a twine more between,
He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
Untwirling the twine that untwisted between,
He twirls with his twister, the two in a twine;
Then, twice having the twines of the twine,
He twitches, the twice he had twined,
in twain.
D and th are two different things

Though at times they sound the same,
When you and I don’t use our ears.
We say Dan when we mean than;

And den when we mean then.
“This book is mine and that is yours.”
Are habits we can easily form
By saying this and that many times –
“This is mine” and “That is yours.”
“I would rather have this dish,”
Though that one is the best.”
Are good practice drills
For those who say den instead of then.
ooOoo
ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF
Dearest creature in Creation

Study English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse
and worse.
I will keep you Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress will tear,
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard and heard
Dies and diet, lord and word
Swords and sward, retain and Britain,
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will plague you
With such words as vague and ague.
But be careful how you speak
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak.
Billet does not sound like ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet,
Font, front, wont, want, grant and grand.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury;
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth
Job, jab, bosom, oath.
Though the difference seems little
We say actual but victual;
Refer doesn’t rhyme with “deafer”,
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion;
Sally with ally; yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver;
Heron, granary, canary,
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
And your pronunciation’s O.K.
When you correctly say croquet;
Rounded, wounded; grieve and sleeve.
Friend and fiend; alive and live.
We say hallowed but allowed,
People, leopard; towed but vowed.
Mark the difference moreover
Between mover, plover, Dover.
Leeches, breeches; wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice.
Soul but foul, and gaunt but aunt,
Crevice and device and eyrie.
Face but preface, but efface;
Ear but earn and wear and tear;
Do not rhyme with “here” but “ere”
Seven is right but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen.
Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp; and cork and work;
Pronunciation – think of psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing “greats” and saying grits;
Islington, and Isle of Wight
Housewife, verdict and indict!
Finally, which rhymes with “enough”
Though, through, plough, cough
or tough?
Hiccough has the sound of “cup”,
My advice is: Give it up!
WHY?
When the English tongue we speak,

Why is sew not rhymed with few?
Will you tell me why it’s true
Cow is cow, but low is low.
And shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose and nose, and of lose
And goose and yet of choose.
Think of comb and tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll, and home, and some.
Since pay rhymes with say,
Why not paid with said, I pray?
We have blood and food and good;
But mould is not pronounced like could.
We say done and gone but lone.
Is there any reason known?
Thus, in short, it seems to me
English sounds and letters disagree.
ooOoo
This text was made by H.L. Vogelsang (pronounced “Voylsang”) who taught English in
Java before he was put in a Japanese prison camp. To occupy his mind and keep from going
insane, he made up the following exercises called “Phonetic Phoolishness.” By the end of the war,
most of his companions had died. He weighed only 70 lbs., but he was alive.
Part 1
If you pronounced HEAD, DEAD and BEAD

You’ll hear the last word rhymes with DEED
And in this “poem” you will find
Many items of this kind.
For instance:
DEAR and FEAR and HEAR but BEAR
GEAR and TEAR but “WEAR and TEAR”
YEAST and LEAST and PLEASED but PLEASANT
BEAST and BREAST and PLEASE but PEASANT
MEAT and PEAT but SWEAT and GREAT
(The last word rhymes with FREIGHT and WEIGHT.)
Quite different again is HEIGHT,
Which sounds like BITE, INDICT and LIGHT.
The next line should be read with care:
The PRAYING PRAYER SAYS his PRAYER.
BEAN and LEAN and MEAN but MEANT.
Note “g” in GET, in GEM and GENT.

VICE but CREVICE – ADVICE – DEVICE.
LICE but MALICE – POLICE – CONCISE.
We say DREAMT but also DREAMED,
(The latter rhyming with ESTEEMED.)
CREW and BLEW and NEW but SEW;
COW and ROW but SOW and ROW
MEASLES does not sound like MEASURE.
The same applies to TREASON
and TREASURE.
BRAID and MAID and LAID but SAID.
TREAT but THREAT and THREAD
but TREAD.
A PRISON is often called a JAIL,
which word is also written GAOL.
Now note the difference with GOAL,
which rhymes with FOAL and DOLE
and ROLL.
Part 2
FIRST say DANGER then ANGER

(Mind the latter rhymes with CLANGOR.)
COUNT but COUNTRY; SOUTHERN but
SOUTH; DISGUISE but BRUISE; YOUTH but
MOUTH. AUNT is not like VAUNT
and CAUNT; BROOK but BROOCH and BROOD but BLOOD; HOOD but MOOD
and FOOD but FLOOD; MINT but PINT
and CORK but WORK;
DULL and GULL and HULL but FULL.
OUR, FLOUR but TOUR and POUR.
We say BONE and LONE but GONE.
Pronounce (your choice) like DON or DAWN.
TONE and STONE and THRONE but DONE;
PHONE and HONE and SCONE but NONE.
Now, reader, always bear in mind

The difference between WIND and WIND
(The latter rhymes with RIND and KIND.)
Can you pronounce without mistakes –
MacLEOD: RACHEL: ACHE: PETAL: PENAL:
WANT: PANT: SLANT: VAN: WAN:
RABIES: GRAND and GRANT?
I don’t blame you if you can’t.
TONGUE TWISTERS at Random

Learn to write your own tongue twisters.
Try the following:
1. The depositor deposits the deposit. . .
2. The investor invested the investment. . .
3. The oppressor oppresses the oppressed. . .
4. The propagation propagated by a propagator. . .
5. The taste you can’t resist. . .
6. The top of the pops tops the pops…
TONGUE TWISTERS at Random

1)
The depositor deposits the deposit
The deposit deposited by the depositor was deposited by the depositor
in a depository.
2)
The investor invested the investment
The investment the investor invested was invested again by another
investor in another investment that usually invests the investment of any
investor.
3)
The oppressor oppresses the oppressed
The oppressed oppressed by the oppressor oppressed the oppressor who
oppressed the oppressed.
The oppressed oppressed exposed the oppresses of the oppressor who
oppressed and oppressed the oppressed.
Can the oppressor who oppressed and oppressed the oppressed be
oppressed? Expressed the oppressed.
Tongue Twisters at Random . . .
4)
The propagation propagated by
a propagator
The propagation propagated by a
propagator was propagated by another
propagator propagating the propagation.
5)
The taste you can’t resist
The taste you can’t resist
Is the taste that you must taste.
‘coz the taste that you must taste
Is the taste you can’t resist.
6)
The top of the pops tops the pops
The top of the pops tops the pops
that are not among the top of the pops
that top the pops.

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Table of Contents
ONE-LINER Tongue Twisters
Longer One-Sentence Tongue Twisters
TWO-LINER Tongue Twisters
100 LONG TONGUE TWISTERS
74 TONGUE TWISTERS with Story Lines:
MORE on
UNIQUE TONGUE TWISTERS
“Knott and Schott”
English is Tough Stuff
Why?
Tongue Twisters at Random
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PREFACE

Tongue Twisters will help one to remedy vowel

Angelina Alas Gam

Norma Diaz Carreon

Emmanuel “Eman” Saavedra Abella

ONE-LINER Tongue Twisters

74 TONGUE TWISTERS with Story Lines:

1) A big black bug bled in the big blue bed.

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A flea and a fly were imprisoned

“Ben, Glenn and Warren”

Betty Botter bought some butter.

Big Brod Black Brush

Bill had a billboard.

“Bill and Dong”

A bitter biting bittern

“Candies and Cookies”

“Captor Captured Captive

Fisher, the young fisher

A fitful young fisher named Fisher

As I went into the garden

“Imagine, Emma Jean”

Knott knitter knotter

Kris and Cris

Mr. Inside went over to see

Mr. See owned a saw and

Nott and Shott

“Pitcher, the pitcher”

The pitcher named Pitcher pitches a pitcher.

“Roasters and Coasters”

Short, Little, Long

“Submission of the decision”

“Sue Witts, the witch”

“Teo and the straw”

The Bear and the Boar

Once upon a barren moor,

The Bold Bald Bear

Who bit the bold bald bear on the

“The Botfly and the Butterfly”

“The Fat Cat and the Fat Rat”

55) Tongue twisters with story lines:

The Fortunate Fortune-Hunter . . .

“The Rancher and His Bags of Money”

A staff member holding a stopper

“The Toe of the Doe”

“The Wandering Wanderer”

63) Tongue twisters with story lines:

Tie the tie

To sit in solemn silence

“Trace the trays”

Tutor and Tooters

Two Boot Blacks

When the Society of Black and White Boot Blackers

Below are some tongue twisters that will help one to

The awful fall of Orphan Paul, a kid of four.

The story is told of an old scold or a gold rogue or an ever-bold

“KNOTT and SCHOTT”

It behooves the prudent student who chooses to be imbued

Do not confuse and be easily fooled and duped into brutal

7) Sibilant and Sound S (s and z)

The Sounds of “d” and “th”

D and th are two different things

We say Dan when we mean than;