English Tongue Twisters

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* A canner can can anything that he can,
But a canner can't can a can, can he?

* 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?

* Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

* 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.

* There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

* Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter
It's the peanut-butter picky people pick.

* One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.

* 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.

One-Line Tongue Twisters

* Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead.
* The black bloke's back brake block broke.
* Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
* I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.
* Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
* The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.
* She sells sea shells on the sea shore. The shells she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.
* I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
* Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
* How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
* The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
* Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
* Santa's Short Suit Shrunk
* Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
* Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins
* A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
 
Heres some more:

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up
speaking English:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more
refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the
desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought
it was
time
to present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of
a bass
drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to
row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are
present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer
line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow
to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got
number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a
tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate
friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For
example...If you have a rough cough, climbing can be
tough when going through the bough on a tree!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There
is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a
pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't
fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but
not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid
of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a
humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking
English should be committed to an asylum for the
verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and
play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by
ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a
slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language in which your house can burn up as it burns
down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about
creating yourself."
Always,
 
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