Working Out your Tongue with Tongue Twisters
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April
Most of us do have problems speaking words properly. We constantly stammer when we are talking to someone who’s more efficient in the language he/she is speaking, specifically in English Language. Speaking or rather talking in English make most of us confident in many ways.
For example, when we are about to be interviewed in a position we applied for, the interviewer initially ask you questions in English. If you answered in the same way as he/she questioned you, the interviewer will be very much impressed by you.
Now, here I gathered some of the Tongue Twister I used to read when I have my free time. In this way you can work out your tongue by speaking it out loud. It will also help you train your tongue in speaking difficult words in English. By familiarizing each word you read, you can boost your confidence knowing that you now can orally speak proper English words.
- “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?”
- “I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.”
- “Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug – although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.”
- “To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!”
- “Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke’s duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck’s duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.”
- “One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.”
- “If Pickford’s packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford’s packers packed survive for two and a half years?”
- “How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.”
- “How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.”
- “How much wood could Chuck Woods’ woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods’ woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods’ woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods’ woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods’ woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.”
- “Mary Mac’s mother’s making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother’s making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so Merry when Mary’s taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?”
- “Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter “T”.”
- “Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze.
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.”
- “Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.”
- “How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.”
- “Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.”
- “Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
“Boo!” cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy’s blowing bubbles.”
- “Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.”
- “Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said “this butter’s bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better” So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so ’twas
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!” - “Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?”
- “A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.”
- “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!”
- “Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now, See’s saw sawed 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 sad to see Soar so sore
just because See’s saw sawed
Soar’s seesaw.”
- “She stood on the balcony,
inexplicably mimicking him hiccoughing,
and amicably welcoming him home.“
Those are just few of the Tongue Twister scattered around the net. if any of you have your own set of Tongue Twisters you may comment below so that I may include it in this article.


waaHhh peter peter picked a peck peter piper peter peter picked a peck peter peter… hahahaha bulol :p
hahhahah..
pasaway..
Kabisado ko yang peter piper na tongue twister, hehehe! Pero, ang mga pinoy merong F, V, TH deficiency… So, yun dapat ang laging i practice na tongue twister! =)