Индивидуальное учебно-исследовательское задание по практической фонетике английского языка

Министерство образования и науки Украины

Мариупольский государственный университет

Кафедра английской филологии

Индивидуальное учебно-исследовательское задание

По практической фонетике английского языка

Tongue Twisters

Студентки І курса

102 группы

Специальности

«Язык и литература (новогреческий)»

Лысовой Валерии Станиславовны

Мариуполь – 2013

Contents

I. Vowels

1. [ i ]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. [i:]…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. [u]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

4. [u:]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

5. [Λ]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

6. [a:]…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

7. [o]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

8. [o:]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

9. [æ]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

10. [e]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

11. [ǝ]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

12. [з:]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

13. [aι]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

14. [au]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

15. [eι]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

16. [ɔɪ]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

17. [ɪə]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

18. [eə]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

19. [ʊə]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

20. [əʊ]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

II. Consonants

1. [p]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. [t]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. [tʃ]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. [k]…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

5. [f]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

6. [θ]………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

7. [s]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

8. [ ʃ ]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

9. [b]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

10. [d]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

11. [dʒ]………………………………………………………………………………………………………

12. [g]……………………………………………………………………………………………………..

13. [v]…………………………………………………………………………………………………….

14. [ð]……………………………………………………………………………………………………..

15. [l]……………………………………………………………………………………………………..

16. [r]…………………………………………………………………………………………………….

17. [z]………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

18. [ʒ]……………………………………………………………………………………………………..

19. [m]…………………………………………………………………………………………………….

20. [n]……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

21. [ŋ]…………………………………………………………………………………………………………

22. [h]…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

23. [w]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

24. [j]…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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1. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream.

2. It isn’t easy to please Lizzy.

3. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs

4. Fit six thin bricks into this big tin lid.

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

6. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.

7. Thin grippy thick slippery.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Six slimy snails sailed silently.

11. Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.

12. A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.

13. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

14. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?

15. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

16. Which witch wished which wicked wish?

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

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

19. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

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20. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.

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1. These trees need heat to keep them green.

2. Each teacher needs to be free to teach as he pleases.

3. The queen in green screamed.

4. At least Denis could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.

5. Silly sheep weep and sleep.

6. We need tea for three, please, for Jean, Steve and me.

7. I eat eel while you peel eel.

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

9. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.

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

11. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.

12. Green glass globes glow greenly.

13. She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.

14. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

15. I’m a sheet slitter. I slit sheets. I’m the sleekest sheet slitter that ever slit sheets.

16. Sally is a sheet slitter, she slits sheets.

17. She sees seas slapping shores.

18. Sweet sagacious Sally Sanders said she sure saw seven segregated seaplanes sailing swiftly southward Saturday.

19. I see a sea down by the seashore. But which sea do you see down by the seashore?

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20. She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells that she sells. Are sea-shore shells, I’m sure.

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1. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

2. Who took my cook-book?

3. You knew you’d choose Juliet.

4. Turn the first turning.

5. The girl learnt the verse.

6. Her third birthday is on Thursday.

7. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

8. She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?

9. Truly rural, truly rural, truly rural…

10. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.

11. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

12. Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section…

13. A woodchuck would chuck all the wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

14. The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.

15. I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

16. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

17. She stood by Burgess's fish sauce shop welcoming him in.

18. How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground?

19. How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.

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20. Announcement at Victoria Station, London: Two to two to Tooting too!

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1. Tuesday's too soon to bring the new music stool into the school.

2. The cook took a good look at the pudding and put sugar in it.

3. How many cookies could a good cook. If a good cook could cook cookies?

4. Roofs of mushrooms rarely mush too much.

5. Red blood, green blood.

6. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck.

7. How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood?

8. Good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood.

9. Wood sawed wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. All the wood Wood saw, Esau sought to saw.

10. Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section...

11. How much dough would Bob Dole dole if Bob Dole could dole dough?

12. I would if I could, and if I couldn't, how could I? You couldn't, unless you could, could you?

13. Blended baby blue bug's blood blotches.

14. Two to two to Toulouse?

15. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

16. How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle?

17. Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.

18. How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.

19. Sherwood is on a fishing expedition.

20. How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle?

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1. Come, come, Stay calm, stay calm, No need for alarm, It only hums, It doesn't harm.

2. "It's hard to park such a large car in the dark", Arthur remarked.

3. The gum has come unstuck in the sun and the colours have begun to run.

4. After the party they started to argue.

5. Snap Crackel pop, Snap Crackel pop, Snap Crackel pop.

6. The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!

7. Never trouble troubles till troubles trouble you. It only doubles troubles and troubles others, too.

8. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

9. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

10. Truly rural, truly rural, truly rural…

11. Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood.

12. Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.

13. I am not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate. I am only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.

14. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

15. Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers.

16. A lump of red leather, a red leather lump.

17. How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?

18. Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood.

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19. If you understand, say ""understand"". If you don't understand, say ""don't understand"". But if you understand and say ""don't understand"". How do I understand that you understand? Understand!?

20. Old Mr. Hunt had a cuddy punt. Not a cuddy punt, but a hunt punt cuddy.

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1. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

2. Two dozen double damask dinner napkins

3. Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig Doug's garden?

4. Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.

5. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

6. What a fast car!

7. Knapsack strap.

8. How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

9. How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?

10. Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, ...

11. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

12. If you want to buy, buy, if you don’t want to buy, bye bye!

13. Mares eat oats and does eat oats, but little lambs eat ivy.

14. Mallory's hourly salary.

15. I'm not the fig plucker, nor the fig pluckers' son, but I'll pluck figs. Till the fig plucker comes.

16. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.

17. Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.

18. Ah shucks, six stick shifts stuck shut!

19. A smart fella, a fella smart. It takes a smart fella to say a fella smart.

20. Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.

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1. George ought to draw up a short report on this morning's talk.

2. The socks that the shop had got in stock were not what I wanted.

3. Octopus ocular optics.

4. Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say 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. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?

5. She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?

6. I thought of thinking of thanking you.

7. Paul snores worse than a horse.

8. Stop washing!

9. Honesty is the best policy.

10. What noise annoys an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

11. When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring, doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

12. Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.

13. How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.

15. How many boards, сcould the Mongols hoard, if the Mongol hordes got bored?

16. Coy knows pseudonoise codes.

17. Salty broccoli, salty broccoli, salty broccoli...

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18. Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.

19. A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.

20. Coy knows pseudonoise codes.

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1. Four furious friends fought for the phone.

2. Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

3. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.

4. I saw a saw in Arkansas.

5. A little pot is soon hot.

6. Clowns grow glowing crowns.

7. Snow is so snowy, when it’s snowing.

8. Four furious friends fought for the phone.

9. When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write.

10. How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?

11. There once was a two toed, she toad, tree toad, and a three toed, he toad, tree toad....

12. 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.

13. A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.

14. A box of biscuits,a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

15. To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan. But do not buy too big a toboggan! Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.

16. Courtney Dworkin.

17. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot to be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?

18. The socks that the shop had got in stock were not what I wanted.

19. Three short sword sheaths.

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20. Joan's boyfriend Joe knows that there is no snow in October.

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1. That handsome man standing with his back to the track has a hat in his hand.

2. Nat the bat swats at Matt the gnat.

3. Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she's sad. Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she's glad. But the sadness of her sadness, and the gladness of her gladness, Are nothing like her madness when she's mad!

4. Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.

5. Black background, brown background.

6. Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum swan!

7. How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.

8. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.

9. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter. Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick.

10. One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.

11. Sweater weather, leather weather.

12. Greek grapes.

13. ThJohn, where Molly had had ""had"", had had ""had had"". ""Had had "" had had the teachers approvalere's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.

14. Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

15. Pail of ale aiding ailing Al's travails.

16. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

17. Black back bat.

18. Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.

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19. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!

20. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

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1. I'll chew and chew until my jaws drop.

2. Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheep cheddar cheese.

3. Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.

4. A big black bear sat on a big black bug.

5. Very well, very well, very well…

6. Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant…

7. My head got better when I went to bed at ten instead of eleven.

8. Federal Express is now called FedEx. When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex. But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec. Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex. If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec. When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.

9. Seventy seven benevolent elephants.

10. Eddie edited it.

11. Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.

12. Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.

13. People pledging plenty of pennies.

14. 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 pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

15. Whenever the weather is cold. Whenever the weather is hot. We'll whether the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

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

17. Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.

18. Fred felt unwell.

19. Ted meant to spend the night in a tent.

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20. Very well, very well, very well...

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1. A big black bug bites a big black bear.

2. Ray Rag ran across a rough road. Across a rough road Ray Rag ran. Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?

3. How many berries could a bare berry carry, if a bare berry could carry berries?

4. Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.

5. A black bloke's back brake-block broke.

6. One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.

7. If a white chalk chalks on a black blackboard, will a black chalk chalk on a white blackboard?.

8. Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.

9. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

10. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.

11. He threw three free throws.

12. Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

13. The seething sea ceaseth; thus the seething sea sufficeth us.

14. A pessimistic pest exists amidst us.

15. 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!

16. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

17. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

18. Sweet sagacious Sally Sanders said she sure saw seven segregated seaplanes sailing swiftly southward Saturday.

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19. She sells sea shells on the sea shore; The shells that she sells are sea shells I'm sure. So if she sells sea shells on the sea shore, I'm sure that the shells are sea shore shells.

20. Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.

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1. Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.

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

3. Her whole right hand really hurts.

4. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.

5. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.

6. Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

7. She is a thistle-sifter. She has a sieve of unsifted thistles and a sieve of sifted thistles and the sieve of unsifted thistles she sifts into the sieve of sifted thistles because she is a thistle-sifter.

8. 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 his thumb?

9. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.

10. Thirty thousand thoughtless boys thought they'd make a thundering noise, so with their thirty thousand thumbs they thumbed thirty thousand drums.

11. Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.

12. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

13. Her third birthday is on Thursday.

14. Turn the first turning.

15. The girl learnt the verse.

16. Thursdays are thirsty days for lethargic Ruth and Thelma.

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17. A twister of twists once twisted a twist; A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist; If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist, The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.

18. Preshrunk silk shirts.

19. Sister Suzie sewing shirts 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.

20. He threw three free throws.

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1. I'm driving rather nice with Nigel sitting by my side.

2. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.

3. To put a pipe in byte mode, type PIPE_TYPE_BYTE .

4. Kanta is a masai girl, she can tie a tie and untie a tie, if kanta can tie a tie and untie a tie, why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie?

5. Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.

6. Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

7. Nine, nineteen and ninety.

8. Two tried and true tridents.

9. Six slimy snails sailed silently.

10. Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.

11. Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.

12. Tommy Tucker tried to tie Tammy's Turtles tie.

13. Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh.

14. Tie a knot, tie a knot. Tie a tight, tight knot. Tie a knot in the shape of a nought.

15. Tie twine to three tree twigs.

16. Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

17. No need to light a night light on a light night like tonight.

18. A white kite is flying in the sky.

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

20. Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.

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1. The mouse that I found in our house was running around in the lounge.

2. How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?

3. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

4. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.

5. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.

6. When I was in Arkansas I saw a saw that could outsaw any other saw I ever saw, saw. If you've got a saw that can outsaw the saw I saw saw then I'd like to see your saw saw.

7. I see a sea down by the seashore. But which sea do you see down by the seashore?

8. The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.

9. Black background, brown background.

10. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

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

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

13. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot to be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?

14. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

15. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

16. A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara.

17. Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.

18. There those thousand thinkers were thinking where those other three thieves went through.

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19. If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?

20. A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

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1. Mr. Grey is waiting at the railway station for a train.

2. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

3. Pail of ale aiding ailing Al's travails.

4. It rained and rained on that grey April day.

5. Small boys like noise-making toys.

6. Give Claire a fair share of pearl jam.

7. Mary Mac’s mother is making Mary Mac marry me. My mother is making me marry Mary Mac.

8. Three grey geese in the green grass grazing, Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

9. Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.

10. Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

11. Pail of ale aiding ailing Al's travails.

12. Six slimy snails sailed silently.

13. Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.

14. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

15. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

16. Real weird, rear wheels

17. Five fat friars frying flat fish.

18. Flies fly but a fly flies.

19. Three grey geese, in a green field grazing, grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

20. A maid named Lady Marmalade, made mainly lard and lemonade. M'lady lamely never made, a well-named, labelled marmalade.

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1. Coy knows pseudonoise codes.

2. Small boys like noise-making toys.

3. Moses supposes his toes are roses.

4. Roy Wayne. Roy Rogers. Roy Rash

5. I know a boy named Tate, who dined with his girl at eight eight. I'm unable to state what Tate ate at eight eight or what Tate's tête à tête ate at eight eight.

6. Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

7. Her whole right hand really hurts.

8. How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?

9. What noise annoys an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

10. Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat...

11. A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more!

12. Loyal royal lawyer.

13. Clowns grow glowing crowns.

14. Meter maid Mary married manly Matthew Marcus Mayo, a moody male mailman moving mostly metered mail.

15. Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

16. Joyce's boyfriend has the noisiest Rolls-Royce with a destroyed motor.

17. The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!

18. Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.

19. Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.

20. Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle.

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1. 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 trees' cheese freeze.

That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

2. Two tried and true tridents.

3. The queen in green screamed.

4. How many berries could a bare berry carry,

if a bare berry could carry berries?

Well they can't carry berries

(which could make you very wary)

but a bare berry carried is more scary!

5. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

6. We're real rear wheels.

7. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.

8. Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!

9. Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall

10. Willie's really weary.

11. East Fife Four, Forfar Five.

12. Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors.

13. Real weird rear wheels.

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14. 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!

15. Really leery, rarely Larry.

16. A lump of red leather, a red leather lump.

17. Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

18. Red leather, yellow leather…

19. Sweater weather, leather weather.

20. I am not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate. I am only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.

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1. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.

2. Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.

3. She sells sea shells on the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.

4. People pledging plenty of pennies.

5. Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

6. She sells seashells on the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashore seashells.

7. Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she's sad. Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she's glad. But the sadness of her sadness, and the gladness of her gladness, are nothing like her madness when she's mad!

8. Real rear wheel.

9. The little red lorry went down Limuru road.

10. Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn't teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.

11. Fred Threlfall's thirty-five fine threads are finer threads than Fred Threlfall's thirty-five thick threads.

12. A quick witted cricket critic.

13. The cat crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out.

14. Certified certificates from certified certificate certifiers.

15. Freddy is ready to roast red roaches. Ready for Freddy's roasted red roaches?

16. Three grey geese. In a green field grazing, Grey were the geese. And green was the grazing.

17. Ralph rakes leaves really, really lousily.

18. Of all the felt I ever felt I never felt felt that felt like that felt felt.

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19. He wanted to desert his dessert in the desert!

20. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.

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1. Lucid Lou slued loose the sluice that slew the slough.

2. Thomas Tattamus took two T's to tie two tots to two tall trees.

3. How much snus could a moose on the loose use if a moose on the loose could use loose snus?

4. Cook "Cookie" Turk took Kookie Kirk a turkey cookie.

5. How many tow trucks could a tow truck tow if a tow truck could tow tow trucks.

6. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

7. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

8. How many cookies could a good cook cook if a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

9. Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood.

10. Red blood, green blood.

11. Good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood.

12. There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two, too.

13. 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.

14. 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?"

15. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck how much a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood.

16. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought. Wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought, Had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought I thought.

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17. The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.

18. How much dough would Bob Dole dole if Bob Dole could dole dough? Bob Dole would dole as much dough as Bob Dole could dole, if Bob Dole could dole dough.

19. I would if I could, and if I couldn't, how could I? You couldn't, unless you could, could you?

20. Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear when Washington's washer-woman went west?

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1. Broken back brake block.

2. In pine tar is. In oak none is. In mud eels are. In clay none is.

3. The two-toed tree toad tried to tread where the three-toed tree toad trod.

4. Esau Wood saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood. If Esau Wood saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood, where is the wood saw witch would saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood.

5. Giddy kiddy goat, Giddy kiddy goat, Giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, kiddy goat.

6. If a Hottentot tot taught a Hottentot tot to talk before the tot would totter, ought the Hottentot tot be taught to say ought, or naught, or what ought to be taught the Hottentot tot? If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot be taught by a Hottentot tutor, should the tutor get hot if the Hottentot tot hoots and toots at the Hottentot tutor?

7. A wooden worm wouldn't be worthy of worship but would he if he wondered and worried about what he would be worthy of if he wasn't wooden?

8. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

9. Farrell's features fabulous food 'n' fantastic fountain fantasies for frolicking, fun-filled festive families.

10. Who holds Joe's nose when he blows? Joe knows.

11. Thomas Tattamus took two T's to tie two tots to two tall trees.

12. I saw a saw in Warsaw. Of all the saws I ever saw I never saw a saw that could saw, like the saw I saw in Warsaw.

13. Dick had a dog, the dog dug, the dog dug deep, how deep did Dick's dog dig? Dick had a duck, the duck dived, the duck dived deep, how deep did Dick's duck dive? Dick's duck dived as deep as Dick's dog dug!

14. Bob's pop-up blocker blocks Bob's pop-ups.

15. Polish it in the corner. Polish it in the corner. Polish it in the corner…

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16. Darn dawn dog gone!

17. Tell a tall tale of a tall tailed dog, that told Tim it tap a tall ale and thump the top of Tim's tomb.

18. How many tow trucks could a tow truck tow if a tow truck could tow tow trucks.

19. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.

20. My back black brake blocks are broken.

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1. Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

2. Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.

3. I am a mother pheasant plucker, I pluck mother pheasants. I am the best mother pheasant plucker, that ever plucked a mother pheasant!

4. People pledging plenty of pennies.

5. 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 pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

6. Pete's pa Pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.

7. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter. Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick.

8. Pirates Private Property.

9. 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?

10. Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?

11. How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.

12. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

13. John, where Peter had had "had had", had had "had"; "had had" had had his master's approval.

14. Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.

15. I'm not the fig plucker, nor the fig plucker's son, but I'll pluck figs, till the fig plucker comes.

16. Thin grippy thick slippery.

17. Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes.

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18. How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

19. A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.

20. Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.

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1. There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.

2. Switch watch, wrist watch.

3. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

4. The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!

5. Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.

6. Tie a knot, tie a knot. Tie a tight, tight knot. Tie a knot in the shape of a nought.

7. Mr Grey is waiting at the railway station for a train.

8. To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan. But do not buy too big a toboggan! Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.

9. 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?"

10. The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.

11. Two tried and true tridents rudder valve reversals.

12. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot to be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?

13. Never trouble troubles till troubles trouble you. It only doubles troubles and troubles others, too.

14. Tried tickling your tongue today?

15. A turbot's not a burbot, for a turbot's a butt, but a burbot's not.

16. Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat…

17. Tommy Tucker tried to tie Tammy's Turtles tie.

18. Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!

19. Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit and twat, to learn the letter ""T"".

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20. There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two, too.

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1. There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.

2. Which witch snitched the stitched switch for which the Swiss witch wished?

3. Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

4. Switch watch, wrist watch.

5. Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch.

6. Which is the witch that wished the wicked wish?

7. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck would chuck wood?

9. There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.

10. Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch.

11. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.

12. Chip shop chips.

13. Which Witch snitched the Snitch Witch? Or did the Snitch Witch snitch the Witch? If the Snitch Witch snitched the Witch then which Witch did the Snitch Witch snitch?

14. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.

15. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

16. Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?

17. I'll chew and chew until my jaws drop.

18. Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese.

19. Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls. Whether the temperature's up or whether 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

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temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls.

20. Chicken in the car and the car can go, that is the way you spell Chicago.

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1. A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

2. She brews a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot.

3. The sixth sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.

4. Six stick shifts stuck shut.

5. Six thick thistle sticks.

6. Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.

7. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

8. Chicken in the car and the car can go, that is the way you spell Chicago .

9. If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?

10. How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.

11.Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.

12. How many berries could a bare berry carry, if a bare berry could carry berries? Well they can't carry berries (which could make you very wary) but a bare berry carried is more scary!

13. If you can't can any candy can, how many candy canes can a candy canner can if he can can candy canes?

14. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

15. Clean clams crammed in clean cans.

16. Clowns grow glowing crowns.

17. Critical cricket critic.

18. 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?

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19. Octopus ocular optics.

20. How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

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1. Four furious friends fought for the phone.

2. Fat frogs flying past fast

3. Five fat friars frying flat fish.

4. There was a young fisher named Fisher who fished for a fish in a fissure.

5. The fish with a grin pulled the fisherman in; now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.

6. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.

Said the flea, "Let us fly!"

Said the fly, "Let us flee!"

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

7. Love's a feeling you feel when you feel you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.

8. Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.

9. Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins.

10. East Fife Four, Forfar Five

11. It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in!

12. 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.

13. A flea and a fly in a flue were imprisoned. So what could they do? Said the fly, ""Let us flee"". Said the flea, ""Let us fly"". So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

14. Fred Threlfall's thirty-five fine threads are finer threads than Fred Threlfall's thirty-five thick threads.

15. Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh.

16. Freshly fried fresh flesh.

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17. 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.

18. Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth…

19. I feel a feel a funny feel a funny feel feel I, If I feel a funny feel a funny feel feel I.

20. If a fella met a fella in a field of fitches. Can a fella tell a fella where a fella itches?

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1. Thirty thousand thirsty thieves thundered through the thicket.

2. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.

3. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

4. Three short sword sheaths.

5. Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,

Sifted sixty thistles through the thick of his thumb.

Thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stuck together.

6. Theo thrust a thumb through two or three thick straw thatches.

7. A thatcher of Thatchwood went to thatchet a thatching.

If the thatcher of Thatchwood went to thatchet a thatching

Where is the thatching the thatcher of Thatchwood has thatched?

8. The Golden Legend.

A thousand faiths with the common dream.

A thousand tongues with the common thing.

A thousand thoughts with the single plan.

Peace on Earth and good will to man.

9. He threw three balls.

10. Elizabeth 's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

11. Six thick thistle sticks.

12. Sometimes Santa thinks silly thoughts.

13. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.

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14. Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.

15. Thin sticks, thick bricks

16. Three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters. If three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters, where are the twisters the three tree turtles talked?

17. Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.

18. Thirty-six thick silk threads.

19. Fred Threlfall's thirty-five fine threads are finer threads than Fred Threlfall's thirty-five thick threads.

20. 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 his thumb?

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

2. Six stick shifts stuck shut.

3. Six thick thistle sticks.

4. Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.

5. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.

6. Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

7. Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.

8. She is a thistle sifter.

She has a seive of unsifted thistles

And a seive of sifted thistles and the seive of unsifted thistles

She sifts into the seive of sifted thistles because she is a thistle sifter.

9. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump thunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

10. One smart man, he felt smart.

Two smart men, they both felt smart.

Three smart men, they all felt smart.

11. Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.

12. Swan swam over the sea.

Swim, swan, swim!

Swan swam back again.

Well swum, swan!

13. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

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

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15. There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.

16. Three switched witches watch three Swatch watch switches. Which switched witch watches which Swatch watch switch?

17. Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch.

18. If a twist twists a twister, and the twist that twists the twister. Untwists the twister, what becomes of the twist?

19. Flies fly but a fly flies.

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

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1. Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.

2. Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

3. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.

4. Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. I wish you were a fish in my dish.

8. National Sheepshire Sheep Association.

9. She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?

10. I'm a sheet slitter. I slit sheets. I'm the sleekest sheet slitter that ever slit sheets.

11. Sally is a sheet slitter, she slits sheets.

12. How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?

13. Whoever slit the sheets is a good sheet slitter.

14. Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city…

15. Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities.

16. Ah shucks, six stick shifts stuck shut!

17. Wishes don't wash dishes.

18. Sherwood is on a fishing expedition.

19. Three short sword sheaths.

20. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.

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1. The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!

2. Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood.

3. Black background, brown background.

4. Red Buick, blue Buick.

5. A black bloke's back brake-block broke.

6. Red blood, green blood.

7. A turbot's not a burbot, for a turbot's a butt, but a burbot's not.

8. Busy buzzing bumble bees.

9. The bearded mountaineer has a fear of putting his beard into his beer.

10. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

11. To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan. But do not buy too big a toboggan! Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.

12. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood. The big black bug's blood ran blue.

13. One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.

14. A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

15. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!

16. Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

17. Red Buick, blue Buick.

18. Salty broccoli, salty broccoli, salty broccoli...

19. A big black bug bit a big black bear, a big black bear bit a big black bug.

20. If a white chalk chalks on a black blackboard, will a black chalk chalk on a white blackboard?

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1. World Wide Web.

2. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck. If a woodchuck would chuck wood?

3. Ken Dodd's dad's dog 's dead.

4. The little red lorry went down Limuru road.

5. Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she's sad. Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she's glad. But the sadness of her sadness, and the gladness of her gladness, Are nothing like her madness when she's mad!

6. Eddie edited it.

7. When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor do the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor do the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

8. Where Molly had had "had had", "had had" had had the teacher's approval.

9. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.

10. Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig Doug's garden?

11. How much dew does a dewdrop drop If dewdrops do drop dew? They do drop, they do As do dewdrops drop If dewdrops do drop dew.

12. Ken Dodd's dad's dog 's dead.

13. Dust is a disk's worst enemy.

14. How much dough would Bob Dole dole if Bob Dole could dole dough? Bob Dole would dole as much dough as Bob Dole could dole, if Bob Dole could dole dough.

15. How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle? A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.

16. Old Mr. Hunt had a cuddy punt Not a cuddy punt but a hunt punt cuddy.

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17. How much dew does a dewdrop drop

If dewdrops do drop dew?

They do drop, they do

As do dewdrops drop

If dewdrops do drop dew.

18. How many boards

Could the Mongols hoard

If the Mongol hordes got bored?

19. How much dough would Bob Dole dole

if Bob Dole could dole dough?

Bob Dole would dole as much dough

as Bob Dole could dole,

if Bob Dole could dole dough.

20. The little red lorry went down Limuru road.

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1. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

2. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

3. Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers.

4. Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally Bought his jolly golli' a dollie made of holly! The golli', feeling jolly, named the holly dollie, Polly. So Yally Bally's jolly golli's holly dollie Polly's also jolly!

5. Who holds Joe's nose when he blows? Joe knows.

6. How much juice does a fruit juice producer produce when a fruit juice producer produces fruit juice? We can deduce a fruit juice produces as much juice as a fruit juice produce can seduce from the fruit that produces juice.

7. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full!

8. She had shoulder surgery.

9. Free Ritz wristwatch. Try saying Ritz wristwatch 5 times fast!

10. In shoulder surgery some surgeons sew soldiers' shoulders.

11. Midget minute, midget minute, midget minute.

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1. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

2. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

3. Great gray goats.

4. Green glass globes glow greenly.

5. A group of Greek gourmets agreed that the game under grapefruit juice was first-grade.

6. A gazillion gigantic grapes gushed gradually giving gophers gooey guts.

7. If you go for a gopher a gopher will go for a gopher hole.

8. Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

9. Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig Doug's garden?

10. Green glass globes glow greenly.

11. Clowns grow glowing crowns.

12. Blue glue gun, green glue gun.

13. 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!

14. Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes.

15. If you go for a gopher a gopher will go for a gopher hole.

16. Giddy kiddy goat, Giddy kiddy goat, Giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, kiddy goat.

17. Dick had a dog, the dog dug, the dog dug deep, how deep did Dick's dog dig?

18. Bad dead bed-bugs bleed bug blood.

19. I gratefully gazed at the gracefully grazing gazelles.

20. You name it, we claim it. If we can't get it, we'll send you to get it. If we can't send you to get it, forget it. Who's got it, if we don't get it?

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1. Seventy seven benevolent elephants

2. Valour and virtue are opposed to villainy and vulgarity.

3. Very well, very well, very well... However, however, however...

4. Love is a feeling you feel when you feel you are going to feel the feeling you have never felt before.

5. Swan swam over the sea.

Swim, swan, swim!

Swan swam back again.

Well swum swan!

6. Very well, very well, very well...

7. Love's a feeling you feel when you feel you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.

8.

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

2. 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 trees' cheese freeze.

That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

3. Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.

4. Whether the weather be fine

or whether the weather be not.

Whether the weather be cold

or whether the weather be hot.

We'll weather the weather

whether we like it or not.

5. The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!

6. Sweater weather, leather weather.

7. The Smothers brothers' father's mother's brothers are

the Smothers brothers' mother's father's other brothers.

8. Dear mother, give your other udder to my other brother.

9. Whether the weather is fine or whether the weather is not,

Whether the weather is cold or whether the weather is hot.

We'll weather the weather whatever the weather,

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Whether we like it or not.

10. We wonder whether the weather will weather the wether . Or whether the weather the wether will kill.

11. Red leather, yellow leather...

12. This is the sixth zebra snoozing thoroughly.

13. Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.

14. Eat with pleasure, drink in measure.

15. The seething sea ceaseth; thus the seething sea sufficeth us.

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1. Salty broccoli, salty broccoli, salty broccoli...

2. A black bloke's back brake-block broke.

3. Red blood, green blood.

4. Good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood.

5. Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

6. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!

7. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.

8. As one black bug, bled blue, black blood. The other black bug bled blue.

9. The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!

10. Clowns grow glowing crowns.

11. If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?

12. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

13. Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant...

14. Flies fly but a fly flies.

15. Valour and virtue are opposed to villainy and vulgarity.

16. Love is a feeling you feel when you feel you are going to feel the feeling you have never felt before.

17. Freshly fried fresh flesh.

18. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

19. Really leery, rarely Larry.

20. Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.

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1. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

2. How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could.

3. Red blood, green blood.

4. Great gray goats.

5. Greek grapes. Greek grapes. Greek grapes.

6. When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write…

7. How much caramel can a canny hiccupping cram in a camel if a canny hiccupping can cram caramel in a camel?

8. Craig Quinn's quick trip to Crabtree Creek.

9. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

10. Red lolly, yellow lolly.

11. Truly rural, truly rural, truly rural, ...

12. Rattle your bottles in Rollocks' van.

13. Really leery, rarely Larry.

14. Her whole right hand really hurts. difficult in Brazil

15. A lump of red leather, a red leather lump

16. Red leather, yellow leather...

17. Mallory's hourly salary.

18. The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver.

19. The rate collector correctly collected the late rates at a great rate.

20. Pirates Private Property.

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1. How many berries could a bare berry carry, if a bare berry could carry berries? Well they can't carry berries (which could make you very wary) but a bare berry carried is more scary!

2. 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?

3. Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts.

4. A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

5. Pete's pa Pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.

6. Two tried and true tridents rudder valve reversals.

7. The passengers of the jet-engine airplane flying to Germany were agitated having become hostages of the hijackers.

8. She sees seas slapping shores.

9. She sells sea shells on the sea shore; The shells that she sells are sea shells I'm sure. So if she sells sea shells on the sea shore, I'm sure that the shells are sea shore shells.

10. Sweet sagacious Sally Sanders said she sure saw seven segregated seaplanes sailing swiftly southward Saturday.

11. 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.

12. Santa's Short Suit Shrunk.

13. Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors.

14. Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities.

15. Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.

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16. Sister Suzie sewing shirts 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.

17. Does this shop sport short socks with spots?

18. She sells sea-shells

On the sea-shore.

The shells that she sells

Are sea-shore shells, I'm sure.

19. Wishes don't wash dishes.

20. Five fit fishers shipped six thick fish dishes.

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1. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

2. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

3. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

4. She had shoulder surgery.

5. Imagine, imagining imagining, an imaginary imaginary imaginary menagerie manager, imagining imagining imagining an imaginary imaginary imaginary managerie.

6. In shoulder surgery some surgeons sew soldiers' shoulders.

7. Midget minute, midget minute, midget minute…

8. Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.

9. Eat with pleasure, drink in measure.

10. The passengers of the jet-engine airplane flying to Germany were agitated having become hostages of the hijackers.

11. Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.

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1. How much caramel can a canny hiccupping cram in a camel if a canny hiccupping can cram caramel in a camel?

2. Roofs of mushrooms rarely mush too much.

3. Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me. My mother's making me marry Mary Mac. Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me? Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?

4. What's a synonym for cinnamon or is cinnamon synonym-less?

5. Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash. If Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash, How many grams of gummy goulash did Grandma Gabby Grammer grab?

6. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.

7. I miss my Swiss miss. My Swiss miss misses me.

8. A maid named Lady Marmalade

made mainly lard and lemonade.

M'lady lamely never made

a well-named, labelled marmalade.

9. She sat upon a balcony, inimicably mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.

10. Mumbling, bumbling. Bumbling, mumbling.

11. Imagine, imagining imagining, an imaginary imaginary imaginary menagerie manager, imagining imagining imagining an imaginary imaginary imaginary managerie.

12. The Smothers brothers' father's mother's brothers are the Smothers brothers' mother's father's other brothers.

13. My mommy makes me muffins on Mondays.

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14. Meter maid Mary married manly Matthew Marcus Mayo, a moody male mailman moving mostly metered mail.

15. Swan swam over the sea.

Swim, swan, swim!

Swan swam back again.

Well swum swan!

16. She stood on the steps of Burgess's Fish Sauce Shop, mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in

17. Come, come, stay calm, stay calm, no need for alarm, it only hums, it doesn't harm.

18. There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan.

19. Mummies make money.

20. Mo mi mo me send me a toe,

Me me mo mi get me a mole,

Mo mi mo me send me a toe,

Fe me mo mi get me a mole,

Mister kister feet so sweet,

Mister kister where will I eat !?

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1. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

2. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

3. We will learn why her lowly lone, worn yarn loom will rarely earn immoral money.

4. Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!

5. The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives.

6. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.

7. Robert Rowley rolled around roll round roll round.

8. Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.

9. If you can't can any candy can?

How many candy canes can a candy canner can?

If he can can candy canes?

10. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.

11. If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts,

buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.

12. The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives.

13. Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!

14. How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?

15. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.

16. The queen in green screamed.

17. How many cans can a cannibal nibble

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If a cannibal can nibble cans?

As many cans as a cannibal can nibble

If a cannibal can nibble cans.

18. Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter "T".

19. Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.

20. Eleven benevolent elephants.

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1. Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.

2. Mrs. King is bringing something pink for Mr. King to drink.

3. The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.

4. Thomas thinks of terrible things

And to the troubled teacher brings

Things that sing and things that sting,

Things which swing and things which cling,

Things that ping, and ring, and fling,

And of all these things thinks nothing.

5. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

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

7. Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

8. Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?

9. I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

10. Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand.

11. If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.

12. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds

13. Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

14. She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping, and amicably welcoming him in.

15. A lady sees a pot-mender at work at his barrow in the street.

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"Are you copper-bottoming 'em, man?"

"No, I'm aluminiuming 'em, Mam."

16. Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities.

17. While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

18. She stood on the steps of Burgess's Fish Sauce Shop, mimicking him hiccupping and amicably welcoming him in.

19. Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.

20. Slick slim slippers sliding south.

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1. In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.

2. John, where Peter had had "had had", had had "had"; "had had" had had his master's approval.

3. The horses' hard hooves hit the hard highroad.

4. The hammerman hammers the hammer on the hard highroad.

5. When in high spirits, I eat honey and ham and hum happy songs.

6. How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hoards got bored?

7. How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.

8. Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.

9. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot to be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?

10. They hatch fish at the state fish hatchery and sell hatched fish to the fish stick factory.

11. In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.

12. Hercules, a hardy hunter, hunted a share in the Hampshire Hills. Hit him on the head with a hard, hard hammer and he howled horribly!

13. Hulk Hawk is hulking the hawk, Hawk Hulk is hawking Hulk ... Hawk hugs the hedgehog.

14. Her whole right hand really hurts.

15. Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.

16. How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle? A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.

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17. Mrs. Hunt had a country cut front in the front of her country cut petticoat.

18. Old Mr. Hunt had a cuddly punt not a cuddly punt but a hunt punts cuddly.

19. A haddock! A haddock! A black-spotted haddock! A black spot on the black back of a black-spotted haddock!

20. Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.

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1. Swan swam over the sea,

Swim, swan, swim.

Swan swam back again.

Well swum, swan!

2. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards

3. There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.

4. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

5. There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich .

6. Which witch snitched the stitched switch for which the Swiss witch wished?

7. Three witches watch three swatch watches. Which witch watches which swatch watch?

8. Three switched witches watch three Swatch watch switches. Which switched witch watches which Swatch watch switch?

9. Three swiss witch-bitches, which wished to be switched swiss witch-bitches, watch three swiss Swatch watch switches. Which swiss witch-bitch, which wishes to be a switched swiss witch-bitch, wishes to watch which swiss Swatch watch switch?

10. Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch.

11. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.

12. Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

13. Switch watch, wrist watch.

14. Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch Irish wristwatch

15. If a twist twists a twister, and the twist that twists the twister. Untwists the twister, what becomes of the twist?

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16. A twister of twists once twisted a twist; A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist; If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist, The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.

17. Tie twine to three tree twigs.

18. 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, would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists?

19. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

20. What, when, where and why are the words we require quite often when we want to ask questions.

21. Which is the witch that wished the wicked wish?

22. William always wears a very warm white vest in winter.

23. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck

24. If a woodchuck would chuck wood?

25. World Wide Web

26. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

27. Why do you cry, Willy? Why do you cry? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why?

28. We won, we won, we won, we won...

29. While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington’s windows with warm washing water.

30. I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.

31. Gig whip, gig whip, gig whip…

32. Esau Wood sawed wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. All the wood Wood saw, Esau sought to saw. One day Esau Wood's wood-saw would saw no wood. So Esau Wood sought a new wood-saw. The new wood-

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saw would saw wood. Oh, the wood Esau Wood would saw. Esau sought a saw that would saw wood as no other wood-saw would saw. And Esau found a saw that would saw as no other wood-saw would saw. And Esau Wood sawed wood.

33. Whether the weather is fine or whether the weather is not,

Whether the weather is cold or whether the weather is hot.

We'll weather the weather whatever the weather,

Whether we like it or not.

34. We wonder whether the weather will weather the weather. Or whether the weather the weather will kill.

35. Sweater weather, leather weather.

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1. Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally Bought his jolly golli' a dollie made of holly! The golli', feeling jolly, named the holly dollie, Polly. So Yally Bally's jolly golli's holly dollie Polly's also jolly!

2. You know New York. You need New York. You know you need unique New York.

3. Ninety-nine new-born babies need ninety-nine new napkins.

4. Unique New York, unique New York, unique New York…

5. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick!

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.

Spread it thicker, say it quicker!

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.

Don't eat with your mouth full!

6. How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

7. Who holds Joe's nose when he blows? Joe knows.

8. The passengers of the jet-engine airplane flying to Germany were agitated having become hostages of the hijackers.

9. How much juice does a fruit juice producer produce when a fruit juice producer produces fruit juice? We can deduce a fruit juice produces as much juice as a fruit juice produce can seduce from the fruit that produces juice.

10. How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?