Tongue twisters in English

Tongue twisters in English

List of tongue-twisters

Hard Tongue Twister Phrases

• A big bug bit a bold bald bear on the bum and the bold bald bear bled blood badly.
  

• Betty bought a bit of butter but the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter so Betty bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better. But the bitter butter made the better butter bitter.
  

• Bill Badger brought the bear a bit of boiled bacon in a brown bag.
  

• Upper roller , lower roller (3x).
  

• Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- Balancing them badly.
  

• Can you can a canned can into an uncanned can like a canner can can a canned can into an uncanned can?
  

• Do scientists see thieves seize skies? If scientists see thieves seize skies, then where are the skies, the scientists see the thieves seize?
  

• Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
  

• I am a mother pheasant plucker. I pluck mother pheasants. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker who ever plucked mother pheasants.
  

• I'm not the sheet slitter, I'm the sheet slitter's son. But I'll slit sheets till the sheet slitter comes.
  

• Red Leather, Yellow Leather (3x Fast)
  

• Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers (3x Fast)
  

• Three Smart Fellows, they all felt smart (3x Fast)
  

• Sunshine City (3x Fast)
  

• If you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
  

• Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
  

• Six swift Swiss ships swiftly shift.
  

• There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two,
  too.
  

• Does the rapid rabid rabbit wrap it?
  

• The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
  

(This is the World's Hardest Tongue Twister, according to Guinness World Records.)

• Unique New York Unique New York You know you need Unique New York.
  

• Give Papa a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee cup.
  

• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
  

• I shot the city sheriff with the city sheriff's gun. (3 times fast)
  

• Two tall boys, Take two ties, To tie two poles, To two tall trees.
  

• Exit Edit Text (a command in Microsoft PowerPoint)

• Mumbling bumbling band of Baboons (3x fast)
  

• Seventeen slimy slugs in shiny sombreros sat singing short sad songs.
  

• She had shoulder surgery.
  

• Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
  

• Thirty-three thin Finns throw forty-three frogs into four Thracian theatres.
  

• The Awfullest Thistle: The successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, stuck three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
  

• Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
  

One shot of Scott's Schnapps stopped Schwab's watch.

• Which witch winds white weasel wool well?
  

Hard Tongue Twister Poems:

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter,
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter,
And made her batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter makes better batter,
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

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,
how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Purple, paper, people,
Purple, people, paper,
People, purple, paper,
Paper, purple, people,

I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate,
And I'm only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son,
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.

A tutor who tooted the flute,
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot,
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it tougher to toot,
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

Heather was hoping to hop to Tahiti,
To hack a hibiscus to hang on her hat,
Now Heather has hundreds of hats on her hat rack,
So how can a hop to Tahiti help that?

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 are shore shells.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Three sweet switched Swiss witches,
Watch three washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switches.
Which sweet switched Swiss witch watches,
Which washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switch?

Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown,
The successful thistle-sifter,
While sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown,
The successful thistle-sifter,
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.

Betty Botter bought some butter. "But," she said, "this 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 a bit of butter better than her bitter butter and she put it in her batter and it made her batter better. So, 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
In sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
If Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
Can thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
See thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.