Tongue Twisters He throws his fists against the post, and still insists she sees a ghost The

Seething Sea Ceaseth, And Thus The Seething Sea Sufficeth Us Three gray geese in green grass grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grass in which the geese were grazing. I stood on the steps of Burgesses fish sauce shop mimicking him hiccuping and welcoming him in. (variation: She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.) Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks. Three thumbtacks were thrown to Tim by Tom. Why did Tom throw Tim three thumbtacks? Lift the ladder later, lisped Lester. Lester lisped, lift the ladder later. Theophilus the thistle sifter, while sifting a sifter full of thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. (Variation): Theosophilus Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. See that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb. Success to the successful thistle-sifter. Does your shirt shop stock short socks with spots? Lilly ladled little Letty's lentil soup. If he slipped should she slip? Shoudd she slip if he slips? Frivolous fat fanny fried fresh fish furiously Friday forenoon for four famished Frenchmen. I am a mother pheasant plucker; I pluck mother pheasants. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker that ever plucked a mother pheasant. (variation) I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's mate, I'm only plucking pheasants, Cuz the pheasant plucker's late. Stanislavsky's little sister was a syphilitic thistle-sifter. I split a sheet, a sheet I split, and what a splitted sheet was it. (variation: I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon a slitted sheet I sit.) Each sixth chick sat on a stick. Six slim slick sycamore saplings. A knapsack strap. Am I and Amy aiming anemic anemones on my many enemies? A blue-backed blackbird blew big bubbles. A big, blue, badly bleeding blister. The brisk, brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses and bludgeons. The bleak breeze blights the bright bloom blossom. Oswald Whittle's whistle out-whistles all other whistler's whistles in

Listen to the local vocal yokel yodel. Rubber baby buggy bumpers (variation: Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers.) (variation: Red rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers) (variation: The big baby buggy with the red rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers) An old scold sold a cold coal shovel. Rush the washing, Russell Buy a black-backed bath brush. The boot black brought the black boot back. (See long variation at end) Moses supposes his toeses are roses, But Moses supposes erroneously, For nobody's toeses are posies of roses As Moses supposes his toeses to be. Amos Ames, the amiable astronaut aided in an aerial enterprise at the age of eighty-eight. Eat fresh fried fish free at the fish fry. I bought a box of biscuits. A box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer. Of all the saws I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw like that saw saws. (See long variation at end) A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thunk the skunk stunk. The skunk thunk the stump stunk. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woddchuck could chuck wood? She sells seashells by the seashore. A proper cup of coffee from a copper coffeepot. (variation: A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup) Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed. Much whirling water makes the mill wheel work well. The big black bug bled black-blue blood while the black-blue bug bled blue Peter Prangle, the prickly prangly pear picker, picked three pecks of prickly prangly pears. Unique New York (variation: Uniquely New York) A white witch watched a woe-begone walrus winding white wool A pale pink proud peacock pompously preened its pretty plumage Oswaldthistle. 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 boar could bear no more the bear that bored him on the moor; and so one morn he bored the baar. The bear will bore the boar no more. Of all the smells I have ever smelt, I never smelt a smell that smelt like that smelt smelt. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick. One wan weary white woman wildly weeping

Peppercorn pudding and pelican pie Which is the witch that wished the wicked wish? Brambles of blueberries burn in beautiful bright blazes Petting pets in parks is prohibited; perhaps it is permitted in parlors. Titillating Titania taunted the tattooed Tarter into a tragic trauma Guttenberg gets gyrating genies to giggle in ghostly ghettos Kukla kicked the camera into kingdom come knocking Kubla Kahnccold. Myriad's of mummies mumbled muffled moans into multicolored masks Mother's money (repeated) Neat Nancy nibbled on the nasty but nourishing noodles and nuts The throng hung onto the singer who flung back in anger Vitamins and vinegar in vast volumes vary in vim and vigor Ftturistic furniture is fine for fun-finding, frolicking, fancy-free families Thoreau thought thrillingly about theoretical and thematic theses A Zuider Zee zoo zoologist said, "Zooies!" to the zebra from Zambezi Pleasure is a division of leisure with a measure of vision Sussex suspected Susa whose susceptibility seemed seriously suspicious Shrill shrimpers shouted at the shallow, sharp, shell shippers Heironymous' hell houses hermaphroditic hellhounds and harrowing horrors 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 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,aand thus the wood Wood sawed was not the wood Wood would saw if Woods' 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 Easu saw wood with thewood-saw Wood saw saw wood. With magic illusions and spectral intrusions, Potions, and lotions, and potent solutions, Mystic creations and mythic sensations, and feats of prestidigitation!! (from Busch Gardens callback audition) Whether the weather be cold, Or whether the weather be hot, We'll be together, Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not. What a to do, to die today, At a minute or two 'til two. A thing distinctly hard to say, But harder still to do. For they'll beat a tattoo at a twenty to two,

"Love me or leave me" is likely to lose loads of leftover lovers A rerun at the Regency ran Ronald Reagan and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Worldly workmen want wondrous works and won't wed witless wooers Whistler whistled while the whippoorwill wished into the whiffle-tree The young Yahoos yelped, yearned, and yelled for youths in Yokohama Juliet jostled the juvenile jury with the jaundiced and the jobless Chicanery in chinchillas and chimpanzees is chock-full of chivalry Longer Twisters 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. 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 had blacked, and the white boot-black blacked the black boot-black back. When the Society of Black and White Boot-Blackers considered the matter, they characterized the conduct of both boot-blacks as the blackest affair thtt had ever blackened the annals of boot-black history. With a rata-ta-tata-ta-tata-tattoo, 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.

A tutor who tooted the flute, Tried to tutor two tutors to toot. Said the two to the tutor, "Is it hareer to toot, Or to tutor two tutors to toot?" Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 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." So, Betty bought a bit of better butter And put it in her batter and It made her batter better. Alphabetical Twisters (From: Anthology of British Tongue-Twisters)

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Andrew Airpump ask'd his Aunt her ailment: Did Andrew Airpump ask his Aunt her ailment? If Andrew Airpump ask'd his Aunt her ailment, Where was the ailment of Andrew Airpump's Aunt (repeat pattern as above in lines 2,3, & 4) Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit Captain Crackshell crack'd a Catchpoll's cockscomb Davy Doldrum dreamed he drove a dragon Enock Elkrig ate an empty eggshell Francis Fribble figured on a frenchman's filly Gaffer Gilpin got a goose and gander Humphrey Hunchback had a hundred hedgehogs Inigo Impey itched for an Indian image Jumping Jacky jeered a jesting juggler Jimbo Kemble kicked his kinsman's kettle Lanky Lawrence lost his lass and lobster Matthew Mendlegs missed a mangled monkey Noddy Noodle nipped his neighbor's nutmegs

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Oliver Oglethorpe ogled an owl and an oyster Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers Quixote Quicksight quizzed a queerish quidbox Rory Rumpus rode a really racy racer Sammy Smellie smelt a salty smell Tip-Toe Tommy turned a task for tupence Uncle Usher urged an ugly urchin Villiam Veedon viped his vig Walter Waddle won a walking wager

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XYZ XYZ have made my brains crack-o, X smokes, Y snuffs, and Z chews tobacco; Yet oft by XYZ much learning's taught; But Peter Piper beats them all to naught. A duel was fought on account of the jewel The duke would not give to the jew The jew told the duke, with a note of rebuke A duel would surely ensue. The jewel was fought for and ended the duel The jew took the jewel as his due.