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Friday Lessons with Uncle Collin
A tongue-twister is a sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly.
Even native English speakers find the tongue-twisters in this instalment difficult to say quickly.
While these can be used as a type of spoken word game, they can be used as exercises to improve pronunciation and fluency.
Try them yourself. Try to say them as fast as possible, but correctly!
◆ A proper copper coffee pot.
◆ Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.
◆ Mixed biscuits, mixed biscuits.
◆ A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.
◆ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
◆ Pink lorry, yellow lorry.
◆ Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.
◆ She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
◆ The sixth sick Sheik’s sixth sheep is sick. (Sometimes described as the hardest tongue-twister in the English language).
◆ Swan swam over the pond,
Swim swan swim!
Swan swam back again—
Well swum swan!
◆ Three grey geese in green fields grazing.
◆ We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
— englishclub.com
