Tongue Twisters

Nowadays tongue twisters still have practical uses. Try saying them all several times, as quickly as you can

1.

Critical cricket critic.

2.

A big blue bucket of blue blueberries. 

3.

A cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot.

4.

If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctor? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

5.

A twister of twists,

Once twisted a twist,

And the twist that he twisted,

Was a three-twisted twist.

Now in twisting this twist,

If a twist should untwist,

The twist that untwisted

Would untwist the twist.

6.

The bear could not bear the bore,

The boar thought the bear a bore.

At last the bear could bear no more

That boar that bored him on the moor.

And so one more he bored the boar –

That boar will bore the bear no more.

7. 

She sells seashells by the sea shore.

8. 

Can you imagine

   an imaginary

menagerie manager

   imagining

   managing

   an imaginary

   menagerie?

9.

Pure food for poor mules.

10.

Shave a cedar shingle thin.

11.

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,

That would make my batter better.’

So she bought a bit of butter

Better than her bitter butter,

And she put it in her batter,

And the batter was not bitter.

So’ twas better Betty Botter

Bought a bit of better butter.

12.

The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

13.

Swim, son, swim, show me you’re swimmer

Swim just how the swans swim

You know how the swans swim.

Six sharp sharks have come to swipe your limb,

So swim as swiftly as you can

Swim, son, swim.

14.

When a Twister a –twisting will twist him a twist,

For the twisting of his twist, he three twines doth intwist;

But if one of the twines of the twist doth untwist

The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist.

15.

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

16.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!

17.

Don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you! If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles you!

18.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled Pepper, Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

 Try to create your own tongue twisters. It is more fun to practise your own original ones. 

Collection of Tongue Twisters for Kids : http://www.youtube.com/user/kidsongsparadise