The Tongue Twister Database

The Tongue Twister Database ^ | FR Post 1-7-2003 | by C. T. Staley.

[vannrox]

For more non-English tongue twisters, I highly recommend Michael Reck's page of International Tongue Twisters. He has tongue twisters in many different languages and it is very impressive. I highly recommend it.

[SGCOS]

Here's a couple from the RAT tongue twister book:

Tax cuts are good.

Socialism is an utter failure.

Less dependence on the government is a good thing.

[xJones]

My young daughter had trouble pronouncing "L"s. They had her practicing, saying "Lovely ladies love ladybugs". Almost drove her nuts until she got the hang of it. :)

[Sgt_Schultze]

Thank you for the post This has always been a favorite of mine...

Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. All the wood Wood saw, Esau sought to saw. One day Wood's wood-saw would saw no wood. So Esau sought a new wood-saw. Esau sought a saw that would saw wood as no other wood-saw Wood saw would saw wood. And Esau found a saw that would saw as no other wood-saw Wood saw would saw. Oh, the wood Wood would saw. And oh, the wood saw with which Wood would saw wood. And Esau Wood sawed wood.

[Siegfried]

Here's a variation on the pheasant plucker one:

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I'm a pheasant plucker.
I pluck mother pheasants.
I'm the pleasantest mother pheasant plucker
that ever plucked a mother pheasant.

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After you get the hang of it, it's great to challenge your drunken buddies to try repeating it after you!

[glock rocks]

Moose noshing much mush.

[Doctor Stochastic]

"Are you copper bottoming'em, my man?"

"No, I'm aluminiuming,'em, Mum!"

[N. Theknow]

Well, aren't you a smart feller?

[coloradan]

Do your rolls have the minimum of cinnamon in 'em?

[Centurion2000]

bump

[Doctor Stochastic]

Necesito cinco centavos para comparar cinco cerezas.

(Castillian, not Mexican pronunciation.)

[T. P. Pole]

Due to popular request, I have altered the format of the page. This was done because many people have felt the previous formats to be hard to read

Hard to read?

[snopercod]

That's easy for you to say...

[Maceman]

Here's one I wrote: "George Schwartz sports Shaw's shorts."

[Tennessee_Bob]

Bump for later reading.

[Fintan]

There once was a man from Nantucket...

[bruin66]

Though not, strictly, a tongue twister, the send-up of Dragnet by Johnny Carson was a classic.

[spetznaz]

Great post.

[ru4liberty]

I saw a saw down in Arkansas; it was the fastest saw I ever saw saw. If you’ve got a saw that can saw as fast as the saw I saw saw down in Arkansas, I’d like to see your saw saw. I bet your saw can’t saw as fast as the saw I saw saw down in Arkansas, ‘cause the saw I saw saw down in Arkansas was the fastest saw I ever saw saw.

[airedale]

I've never been able to say the following 6 times fast:

Black Bugs Blood