Tongue twisters

[æ]

Can you can a can

as a canner can can a can?

[æ]

A fat cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat.

[æ]

If you, Andy, have two candies Give one candy to Sandy, Andy.

[Ʊ-Ʊ:]

Don’t pull this fool into the pool, it’s not cool.

[v-w]

Very well,

Very well,

Very well,

Willy fell

In the well.

[i:]

I scream,

You scream,

We all scream

For ice-cream!

[b]

• A big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug!

[θ- ð]

• Elizabeth’s birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

[f]

Four furious friends

fought for the floor.

[lr]

On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.

[lr]

Red lorry, yellow lorry,

Red lorry, yellow lorry.

[t  ]

Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of

cheap cheddar cheese.

[ɔI]

Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy oyster annoys an oyster more!

[α:]

Smart Bart baked an apple tart and put it into his farmer’s market cart.

[ɔ-ɔ:]

Bob, don’t snore any more like you snored before, for Polly lock the door.

[gr]

Three grey geese in a green field grazing,

Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

[aI]

There’s no need to light a night light

  On a light night like tonight.

[æ]

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!?

[θ]

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

[Ʊ, k]

• 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.

[w-u:]

How   much   wood   would   a   woodchuck   chuck

If   a   woodchuck   could   chuck   wood ?

[  -s]

• She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure. So if she sells seashells on the seashore, Then, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

[w]

'Whether the weather is warm,

whether the weather is hot,

we have to put up with the weather,

whether we like it or not.'

[w]

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

[p]

Peter piper picked a peek 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?

[k-p]

• 'Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.'

[f-w]

'Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.

Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair.

Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?'