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English Tongue Twisters

1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
© 1996-2007 by Michael Reck
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1
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 pickledpeppers Peter Piper picked?

2
A quick witted cricket critic.

3
IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = ELSE ELSE ELSE = IF;

programming language PL/I by Bruce Walker

4
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

5
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?

from the comic Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Waterson

6How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

7
Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.

by Raymond Weisling

8
Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

9
Coy knows pseudonoise codes.

by Pierre Abbat

10
Sheena leads, Sheila needs.

11
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the thronethroughout Thursday.

12
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.

by Meaghan Desbiens

13
Can you can a can as a cannercan can a can?

14
Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.

15
You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!

From a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson

16
Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

17
Clean clams crammed in clean cans.

18
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.

19
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witchwishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

20
Stupid superstition!

21
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.

22
World Wide Web

23
To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock
In a pestilential prison with a life long lock
Awaiting the sensationof a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado

24
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.

from a commercial

25
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

26
Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Ducktakes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks

27
Seventy seven benevolent elephants

harder than it seems

28
There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through.

29
Santa's Short Suit Shrunk

name of a children's book

30
I was born on a pirate ship

Hold your tounge whilesaying it.

31
I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!

32
Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

33
In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly Hever 'appen.

From the film ""My Fair Lady""

34
One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.

35
Eleven benevolent elephants

36
Celibate celebrant, celibatecelebrant, celibate celebrant, ...

37
Willy's real rear wheel

David Bowser in Harrisburg, PA

38
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?

from Naomi Fletcher's real life

39
Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards

40
Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

41
Did Dick Pickens...