Saying tongue twisters out loud will help ESL students in their pronunciation and accent.
Fun Facts About Tongue Twisters:
The hardest tongue twister according to the Guiness Book of World Records is the
"The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick."
William Poundstone, American author, columnist and skeptic said that the hardest tongue twister in the English language is the
"The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us."
List of tongue twisters you can read, practice and enjoy.
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.
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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 tree's cheese freeze
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
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Catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls
Whether the temperature's up or the temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the pitcher are always around.
The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches.
So whether the temperature's rises or whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls.
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As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes,
they're great!
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Betty bought a bit of butter
But she said, "This butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter."
So Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter batter better.
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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?
But if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Were they pickled when he picked them from the vine?
Or was Peter Piper pickled when he picked the pickled peppers
Peppers picked from the pickled pepper vine?
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much wood as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
All day long she sits and shines,
all day long she shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits.
Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
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She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells by the seashore.
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
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If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,
Or some stickler who is slicker
Will stick you of your liquor
If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock!
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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 bear could bear no more of that boar
that bored him on the moor, and so one morn he bored the bore - -
That boar will bore the bear no more.
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A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother
bittern, and the bitter better bittern bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten,
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"
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You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's a slight light
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.
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I need your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers need to kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed.
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Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between,
He twirls, with his twister, the tow in a twine;
Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,
He twitcheth the twice he had twined in the twain.
The twain that in twining before in the twine,
As twines were untwisted he now doth untwines;
Twist the twain inter-twisting a twine
He, twirling his twister,
Makes a twist of the twine.
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If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
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Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
All day long he fits and tucks,
all day long he tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits.
Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
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There once was a man who had a sister, his name was Mr. Fister.
Mr. Fister's sister sold sea shells by the sea shore.
Mr. Fister didn't sell sea shells, he sold silk sheets.
Mr. Fister told his sister that he sold silk sheets to six shieks.
The sister of Mr. Fister said I sold six shells to six shieks toos!
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Amidst the mist and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrist and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fist against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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Sister Suzie sewing shirsts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
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I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"
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What to do to die today at a minute or two to two.
A terribly difficult thing to say and a harder thing to do.
A dragon will come and beat his drum Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-too
at a minute or two to two today.
At a minute or two to two.
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A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
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King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of this thumb?
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Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some day Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott.
Howerever, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott.
So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?
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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 my thumb.
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A fly and flea flew into a flue,
said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?'
'let us fly' said the flea
said the fly 'shall we flee'
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.
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I'm a sheet slitter.
I slit sheets.
I'm the sleekest sheet slitter
that ever slit sheets.
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Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
All day long she sits and shines,
all day long she shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits.
Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
All day long she sits and shines,
all day long she shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits.
Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
All day long he fits and tucks,
all day long he tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits.
Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
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