A tongue-twister is a phrase or a sentence or a verse in any language which is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. Often, some tongue-twisters produce humorous results when they are mispronounced. Usually it is difficult to say it without making any mistake. In saying it, the tongue may get tangled but it improves diction. Some tongue-twisters are short phrases which become Tongue-twisters when repeated rapidly. Below is the list of some famous tongue twisters:
1. Upper roller lower roller
2. Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter,
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better,
So she bought some better butter
Better than the bitter butter,
And she put it in her batter
And her batter was not bitter,
So ’twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
3. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
4. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish,
but if you wish the wish the witch wishes,
I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
5. You’ve no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light’s light’s a slight light,
And tonight’s a night that’s light.
When a night’s light, like tonight’s light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.
6. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
7. She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
8. Coy knows pseudonoise codes.
9. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
10. A tutor who tooted the flute,
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
‘Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?’
11. I saw a saw in Warsaw.
Of all the saws I ever saw
I never saw a saw that could saw,
like the saw I saw in Warsaw.
12. Black Rock Brain Lock
13. A maid named Lady Marmalade
made mainly lard and lemonade.
M’lady lamely never made
a well-named, labeled marmalade.
14. One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.
15. I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a bare
When bare of hair he strips the hare
Right there I cry, “Furbear!”
16. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottenton tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?
17. How many cans can a canner can,
if a canner can can cans?
A canner can can as many cans as a canner can,
if a canner can can cans.
18. If you understand, say “understand”.
If you don’t understand, say “don’t understand”.
But if you understand and say “don’t understand”.
How do I understand that you understand? Understand!
19. Financial firms flop fabulously.
20. A Miss In Bus.
Bus Was Rush.
In Rush Bush Kiss Miss.
Miss Push Bush. Bush Miss Kiss.