Tongue Twisters


A

  • "What ails Alex?" asks Alice.
  • A big black bear sat on a big black bug.
  • A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
  • A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled blood
  • A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
  • A black bloke's back brake-block broke.
  • A bloke's back bike brake block broke.
  • A bloke's bike back brake block broke.
  • A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits
  • A lump of red leather, a red leather lump
  • A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his laboratory.
  • A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more!
  • A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
  • A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest.
  • A pessimistic pest exists amidst us.
  • A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed.
  • A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.
  • A real rare whale.
  • A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
  • A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara.
  • A turbot's not a burbot, for a turbot's a butt, but a burbot's not.
  • Ah shucks, six stick shifts stuck shut!
  • Alice asks for axes.
  • An elephant was asphyxiated in the asphalt.
  • Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.
  • Are our oars oak?
  • Argyle Gargoyle
  • As one black bug, bled blue, black blood. The other black bug bled blue.
  • As the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.
  • If I assist a sister-assistant, will the sister's sister-assistant assist me?

B

  • A big bug bit a bold bald bear and the bold bald bear bled blood badly.
  • Bad black bran bread.
  • Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
  • Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.
  • Betty better butter Brad's bread.
  • Big Ben blew big blue bubbles.
  • Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.
  • Black background, brown background.
  • Black Bugs Bleed Black Blood
  • Black bug's blood
  • Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.
  • Blue bugs blood.
  • Brad's big black bath brush broke.
  • Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- Balancing them badly.
  • Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood
  • Busy buzzing bumble bees.
  • The fuzzy bee buzzed the buzzy busy beehive.

C

  • A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
  • A cupcake cook in a cupcake cook's cap cooks cupcakes.
  • Ape Cakes, Grape Cakes.
  • Catch a can canner canning a can as he does the cancan, amd you've caught a can-canning can-canning can canner!
  • Cheap sheep soup.
  • Chocolate chip cookies in a copper coffee cup.
  • Cinnamon aluminum linoleum.
  • Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
  • Crisp crust crackles.
  • Cuthbert's cufflinks.
  • How much can can a cannibal nibble, if a cannibal can nibble can?
  • If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
  • Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.

D

  • A dozen dim ding-dongs.
  • Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?
  • Does this shop sport short socks with spots?
  • Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.
  • Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.
  • Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
  • Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.
  • Dust is a disk's worst enemy.
  • How much dew would a dew drop drop, if a dew drop did drop dew?

E

  • Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
  • Ed had edited it.
  • Eddie edited it.
  • Eleven benevolent elephants
  • Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
  • Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.
  • Ere her ear hears her err, here ears err here.
  • Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

F

  • Fat frogs flying past fast.
  • Five fat friars frying flat fish.
  • Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
  • Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.
  • Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
  • Flies fly but a fly flies.
  • Four furious friends fought for the phone.
  • Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
  • Fresh French fried fly fritters
  • Freshly fried fresh flesh.
  • Freshly-fried flying fish.
  • Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
  • Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins.
  • A fat-free fruit float.
  • False Frank fled Flo Friday.
  • Few free fruit flies fly from flames.
  • Four free-flow pipes flow freely.
  • Fran feeds fish fresh fish food.
  • Freckle-faced Freddie fidgets.
  • I'm not a fig plucker nor a fig plucker's son, but I'll pluck your fig's 'til the fig plucker comes.
  • The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat.
  • Try fat flat flounders.

G

  • Cows graze in droves on grass that grows on grooves in groves.
  • Gale's great glass globe glows green.
  • Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.
  • Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle.
  • Give Mr. Snipa's wife's knife a swipe.
  • Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
  • Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
  • Good blood, bad blood.
  • Great gray goats
  • Greek grapes.
  • Green glass globes glow greenly.
  • Gus goes by Blue Goose bus.

H

  • Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.
  • He threw three balls.
  • He threw three free throws.
  • Hiccup teacup!
  • Higgledy-Piggedly!
  • Hi-Tech Traveling Tractor Trailor Truck Tracker
  • How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
  • How many berries could a bare berry carry,
  • 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.
  • How many moose might a mini-mouse move if a mini-mouse might move moose?
  • How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?
  • How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
  • How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?
  • How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
  • How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?
  • How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.
  • The hare's ear heard ere the hare heeded.

I

  • Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
  • I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning.
  • I eat eel while you peel eel
  • I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
  • I see Isis's icy eyes.
  • I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.
  • I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.
  • I slit the sheet and the sheet slit me the slit in the sheet was slit by me
  • I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
  • I stood sadly on the silver steps of Burgess's fish sauce shop, mimicking him hiccuping, and wildly welcoming him within.
  • I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
  • I was born on a pirate ship - Hold your tounge while saying it.
  • I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
  • I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
  • 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.
  • I wish to wish, I dream to dream, I try to try, and I live to live, and I'd die to die, and I cry to cry but I dont know why.
  • I wish you were a fish in my dish
  • I would if I could! But I can't, so I won't!
  • If a bare berry could carry berries?
  • If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot tot be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?
  • If colored caterpillars could change their colors constantly could they keep their colored coat colored properly?
  • If Kantie can tie a tie and untie a tie,
  • If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
  • If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
  • Ike ships ice chips in ice chips ships.
  • I'll chew and chew until my jaws drop.
  • Inchworms itching.
  • Irish wristwatch
  • Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
  • managing an imaginary menagerie?

J

  • Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep.
  • Judicial system.
  • June sheep sleep soundly.

K

  • A knapsack strap.
  • Keenly cleaning copper kettles.
  • Kinky kite kits.
  • Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest!
  • Come kick six sticks quick.
  • Kanta is a masai girl, she can tie a tie and untie a tie, if kanta can tie a tie and untie a tie, why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie?
  • Ken Dodd's dad's dog 's dead.
  • Knapsack strap.
  • Knife and a fork bottle and a cork
  • Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.

L

  • Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.
  • Larry sent the latter a letter later.
  • Lesser leather never weathered lesser wetter weather.
  • Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
  • Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup.
  • Lisa laughed listlessly.
  • Listen to the local yokel yodel.
  • Literally literary.
  • Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.
  • Lonely lowland llamas are ladylike.
  • Lovely lemon liniment.
  • Love's a feeling you feel when you feel you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.
  • Red leather! Yellow leather!
  • Yellow lorry, blue lorry.

M

  • A missing mixture measure.
  • Mallory's hourly salary.
  • Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
  • Miss Smith lisps as she talks and lists as she walks.
  • Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
  • Mix, Miss Mix!
  • Mommy made me eat my M&Ms.
  • Moose noshing much mush.
  • Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter ""T"".
  • Mrs Hunt had a country cut front in the front of her country cut pettycoat.
  • Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.
  • Much mashed mushrooms.
  • Mummies make money.
  • Why may we melee, when we may waylay?

N

  • Nick knits Nixon's knickers.
  • Nine nice night nymphs.
  • Nine nimble noblemen nibbled nuts
  • Norse myths.
  • A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
  • Nat the bat swat at Matt the gnat.
  • National Sheepshire Sheep Association
  • Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
  • Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!
  • Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
  • No need to light a night light on a light night like tonight.
  • Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.

 O

  • "Under the mother otter," muttered the other otter.
  • Awful old Ollie oils oily autos.
  • Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.
  • On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
  • One hedgehog hedged up the hedge, whilst another hedge hog hedged down.

P

  • A pack of pesky pixies.
  • If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
  • Is a pleasant peasant's pheasant present?
  • Pacific Lithograph.
  • Paul, please pause for proper applause.
  • Peggy Bobcock's mummy.
  • People pledging plenty of pennies.
  • Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter.
  • Pete's pa pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.
  • Pirates Private Property
  • Plague-bearing prairie dogs.
  • Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.
  • Please pay promptly.
  • Plymouth sleuths thwart Luther's slithering.
  • Pooped purple pelicans.
  • Pope Sixtus VI's six texts.
  • Preshrunk shirts.
  • Preshrunk silk shirts

Q

  • The quack quit asking quick questions.
  • The queen coined quick clipped quips.

R

  • A lump of red lead,
  • A red lead lump.
  • Raise Ruth's red roof.
  • Rattle your bottles in Rollocks' van.
  • Real rear wheel
  • Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall
  • Really leery, rarely Larry.
  • Red blood, green blood
  • Red Buick, blue Buick
  • Red lorry, yellow lorry
  • Rex wrecks wet rocks.
  • Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch.
  • Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.
  • Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
  • Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
  • Roland road in a Rolls Royce.
  • Rolling red wagons
  • Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
  • Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
  • Round the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran.
  • Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
  • Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
  • Rush the washing, Russel!
  • Ruth's red roof.

S

  • "Go my son, and shut the shutter."
  • "I cannot shut it any shutter."
  • "The shutter's shut," the son did utter,
  • A woman to her son did utter,
  • No shark shares swordfish steak.
  • No shipshape ships shop stocks shop-soiled shirts.
  • Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.
  • Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes
  • Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
  • Seized his knees and sneezed.
  • Selfish sharks sell shut shellfish.
  • Selfish shellfish.
  • Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.
  • Seth's sharp spacesuit shrank.
  • Seven Silly Swans Swam Silently Seaward
  • Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors.
  • Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.
  • Seventy seven benevolent elephants
  • Sexist sixties.
  • She ceased shining shoes and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan.
  • She had shoulder surgery.
  • She said she should sit!
  • She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
  • She sees cheese.
  • She sees seas slapping shores.
  • She sells sea shells by the seashore.
  • She sells seashells on the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashore seashells.
  • She sells Swiss sweets.
  • She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter.
  • She sits in her slip and sips Schlitz.
  • She slits the sheet she sits on.
  • She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicing him hiccupping, and amicably welcoming him home.
  • Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
  • Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.
  • Sherman shops at cheap chop suey shops.
  • Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section, ...
  • Shredded Swiss chesse.
  • Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.
  • Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
  • Silly sheep weep and sleep.
  • Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter,
  • Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand.
  • Sister Susie sewing shirts for soldiers.
  • Six crisp snacks.
  • Six quick sneezes, six quick sneezes, six quick sneezes
  • Six sharp smart sharks.
  • Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins.
  • Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities.
  • Six short slow shepherds.
  • Six shy shavers sheared six shy sheep.
  • Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
  • Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.
  • Six sick sheep.
  • Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
  • Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
  • Six slimy snails sailed silently.
  • Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
  • Six sticky sucker sticks.
  • Six thick thistle sticks.
  • Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.
  • Sixish.
  • Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup.
  • Spark plug car park.
  • Stagecoach stops.
  • Strange strategic statistics.
  • Such a shapeless sash!
  • Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, ...
  • Sure the ship's shipshape, sir.
  • Susan shineth shoes and socks; socks and shoes shines Susan.
  • Suzie Seaword's fish-sauce shop sells unsifted thistles for thistle-sifters to sift.
  • Swatch watch
  • Sweet sagacious Sally Sanders said she sure saw seven segregated seaplanes sailing swiftly southward Saturday.
  • Switch watch, wrist watch.
  • Synonym cinnamon.
  • The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

T

  • Do thick tinkers think?
  • I shot three shy thrushes.
  • Tacky tractor trailer trucks.
  • Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin.
  • Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side.
  • that is the way you spell New York.
  • The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
  • The big bad baby brought the bought black blanket back
  • The boot black bought the black boot back.
  • The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver. .
  • The epitome of femininity.
  • The Leith police dismisseth us.
  • The myth of Miss Muffet.
  • The ochre ogre ogled the poker.
  • The queen in green screamed.
  • The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives.
  • The sawingest saw I ever saw saw
  • The sea ceaseth, but it sufficeth us
  • The seething sea ceaseth; thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
  • The seething seas ceaseth and twiceth the seething seas sufficeth us.
  • The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
  • The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
  • The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.
  • The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
  • The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.
  • Thelma sings the theme song.
  • There goes one tough top cop!
  • There those thousand thinkers were thinking where did those other three thieves go through.
  • There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through.
  • There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.
  • There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan.
  • There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
  • These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue
  • They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw.
  • They have left the thriftshop, and lost both their theatre tickets and the volume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills.
  • Thieves seize skis.
  • Thin sticks, thick bricks
  • Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber .
  • This is a zither.
  • This is the sixth zebra snoozing thoroughly.
  • Three free throws.
  • Three short sword sheaths.
  • Three twigs twined tightly.
  • Tie twine to three tree twigs.
  • Tim, the thin twin tinsmith
  • Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.
  • To have truck to truck two trucks of truck.
  • Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.
  • Tommy Tucker tried to tie Tammy's Turtles tie.
  • Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
  • Tragedy strategy.
  • Truly rural.
  • Twelve standard stainless steel twin screw cruisers.
  • Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
  • Twice we tripped toys.
  • Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.
  • Two to two to Toulouse?
  • Two toads, totally tired.
  • Two tried and true tridents
  • Two Truckee truckers truculently truckling
  • Theopholus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, successfully sifted some thistles.

U

  • Unique New York.
  • The U.S. twin-screw cruiser.

V

  • Valuable valley villas.
  • What veteran ventriloquist whistles.
  • Very well, very well, very well ...
  • Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.

W

  • Real wristwatch straps.
  • Wally Winkle wriggles his white, wrinkled wig.
  • Was the saw I saw saw in Arkansas.
  • Wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
  • Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
  • We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
  • Well they can't carry berries
  • We're real rear wheels.
  • Wetter weather never weathered wetter weather better.
  • What a shame such a shapely sash should such shabby stitches show.
  • What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?
  • When Washington's washer woman went west?
  • When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. ...
  • Which rich wicked witch wished the wicked wish?
  • Which witch watched which watch?
  • Which witch wished which wicked wish?
  • Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?
  • While we were walking, we were watching window washers
  • While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's Windows with warm washing water.
  • Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear
  • Whoever slit the sheets is a good sheet slitter.
  • Why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie like Kantie can.
  • Will you, William?
  • Willie's really weary.
  • Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!

X

  • The ex-egg examiner.
  • X-Mas wrecks perplex and vex.
  • X-ray checks clear chests.

Y

  • Local yokel jokes.
  • Yanking yellow yo-yos.
  • Yellow leather, yellow feather, yellow lemon.

Z

  • Zithers slither slowly south.
  • Zizzi's zippy zipper zips.