Tongue-Twisters.doc

1. A big black bear sat on a big black bug.
2. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
3. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
4. A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.
5. A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more!
6. Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.
7. Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
8. Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.
9. Black background, brown background.
10. Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.
11. Blue glue gun, green glue gun.
12. Caution: Wide Right Turns
13. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
14. Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
15. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.
16. Fresh fried fish, Fish fresh fried, Fried fish fresh, Fish fried fresh.

17. Freshly fried fresh flesh
18. Green glass globes glow greenly.
19. He threw three balls.
20. He threw three free throws.
21. Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say:
22. 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.
23. How may saws could a see-saw saw if a see-saw could saw saws?
24. How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?
25. 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.
26. I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
27. 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.
28. I wish you were a fish in my dish
29. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
30. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
31. It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in!
32. Little red lorry
33. Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
34. Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!
35. Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.
36. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter. Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick.
37. Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
38. She said she should sit.
39. She sells sea shells on the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.
40. Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.
41. Silly sheep weep and sleep.
42. Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities.

43. Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.
44. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
45. Stupid superstition!
46. The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
47. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
48. The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
49. There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through.
50. There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
51. Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.
52. Very well, very well, very well ...
53. What noise annoys an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
54. Willie's really weary.
If a shipshape ship shop stocks six shipshape shop-soiled ships, how many shipshape shop-soiled ships would six shipshape ship shops stock?
Note:
1. shipshape:井井有条的
2. stock:备有；供应
3. shop-soiled:在商店放旧了的
A

If I assist a sister-assistant, will the sister's sister-assistant assist me?

"What ails Alex?" asks Alice.

Alice asks for axes.
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B

Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar,
The bear could not bear the boar,
The bear thought the boar was a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
That boar that bored him on the moor.
And so one morn he bored the boar-
That boar will bore no more!

A big bug bit a bold bald bear and the bold bald bear bled blood badly.

Bad black bran bread.

Big ben blew big blue bubbles.

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
"But," said she, "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 Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
(better than her bitter butter)
And she put it in her bitter batter
And made her bitter batter a bit better.

The fuzzy bee buzzed the buzzy busy beehive.

Blue bugs blood.

I bought a box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.

Bill had a billboard.
Bill also had a board bill.
The board bill bored Bill,
So Bill sold his billboard
And paid his board bill.
Then the board bill
No longer bored Bill,
But though he had no board bill,
Neither did he have his billboard!
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C

Catch a can canner canning a can as he does the cancan, amd you've caught a can-canning can-canning can canner!

Clean clams crammed in clean cans.

How much can can a cannibal nibble, if a cannibal can nibble can?

Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.

Cuthbert's cufflinks.

A cupcake cook in a cupcake cook's cap cooks cupcakes.

Crisp crust crackles.

Chocolate chip cookies in a copper coffee cup.

Ape Cakes, Grape Cakes.

Cinnamon aluminum linoleum.

If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing,
cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.

Cheap sheep soup.

A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
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D

When a doctor gets sick and another doctor doctors him,
does the doctor doing the doctoring have to doctor the doctor the way the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored,
or does the doctor doing the doctoring of the doctor doctor the doctor as he wants to do the doctoring?

A dozen dim ding-dongs.

How much dew would a dew drop drop, if a dew drop did drop dew?
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E

Esau Wood would saw Wood. Oh, the wood
that Wood would saw! One day Esau Wood
saw a saw saw wood as no other wood-saw
Wood ever saw would saw wood. Of all the
wood-saws Wood ever saw saw wood, Wood
never saw a wood-saw that would saw like
the wood-saw Wood saw would. Now Esau
saws wood with that wood-saw he saw saw
wood.

Ere her ear hears her err, here ears err here.

I saw Esau kissing Kate.
Fact is, we all three saw.
I saw Esau, he saw me,
And she saw I saw Esau.
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F

Freckle-faced Freddie fidgets.

The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat.

Try fat flat flounders.

Fran feeds fish fresh fish food.

Few free fruit flies fly from flames.

I'm not a fig plucker nor a fig plucker's son,
but I'll pluck your fig's 'til the fig plucker comes.

False Frank fled Flo Friday.

Four free-flow pipes flow freely.

A fat-free fruit float.

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

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?

One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they felt smart.
Four smart fellows, they felt smart.
Five smart fellows, they felt smart.
Six smart fellows, they felt smart.
Seven smart fellows, they felt smart.
Eight smart fellows, they felt smart.
Nine smart fellows, they felt smart.
Ten smart fellows, they felt smart!
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G

Greek grapes.

Gus goes by Blue Goose bus.

Cows graze in droves on grass that grows on grooves in groves.

Gale's great glass globe glows green.
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H

Higgledy-Piggedly!

The hare's ear heard ere the hare heeded.

Hiccup teacup!

A haddock!
A haddock!
A black-spotted haddock!
A black spot
On the black back
Of a black-spotted haddock!
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I

I see Isis's icy eyes.

Ike ships ice chips in ice chips ships.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
managing an imaginary menagerie?
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J

Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep.

Our Joe wants to know if your Joe will lend
our Joe you Joe's banjo. If your Joe won't
lend our Joe your Joe's banjo our Joe won't
lend your Joe our Joe's banjo when our Joe
has a banjo!

A gentle judge judges justly.

June sheep sleep soundly.

Judicial system.
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K

Kinky kite kits.

A knapsack strap.

Keenly cleaning copper kettles.

Come kick six sticks quick.

Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest!
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L

Lonely lowland llamas are ladylike.

Lisa laughed listlessly.

Larry sent the latter a letter later.

Literally literary.

Red leather! Yellow leather!

Lesser leather never weathered lesser wetter weather.

Yellow lorry, blue lorry.

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
it is slick to put a lock upon your stock.
For some joker who is quicker will rob you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
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M

Miss Smith lisps (to speak imperfectly) as she talks and lists as she walks.

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

A missing mixture measure.

Much mashed mushrooms.

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.

Why may we melee, when we may waylay?
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N

Nick knits Nixon's knickers.

Nine nimble noblemen nibbled nuts

A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

Norse myths.

Nine nice night nymphs.
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O

Awful old Ollie oils oily autos.

"Under the mother otter," muttered the other otter.

The owner of the Inside Inn
Was outside his Instde Inn
With his inside outside his Inside Inn.
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P

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter.

Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper,
a pack of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper,
where's the pack of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

Paul, please pause for proper applause

A pack of pesky pixies.

Preshrunk shirts.

Peggy Bobcock's mummy.

A proper cup of coffee is a proper coffee cup.
A proper crop of poppies is a proper poppy-crop.

Is a pleasant peasant's pheasant present?

Pooped purple pelicans.

I'm the son of a pheasant plucker,
A pheasant plucker am I.
I'm only plucking pheasants
Till the pheasant plucker comes.

(in Filipino)
Pitongpu't pitong puting pating
(77 white sharks)

(in Chavacano, slang spanish)
Tiene un pono de papaya na punta del pantalan.
Na pono del papaya, tiene puerco pri馻da.
Ya mira el pulis, ya pita su pito, pit pit pit.
(There's a papaya tree at the end of the port.
Below the papaya tree, there's a pregnant pig.
The police saw her, he blew his whistle, pit
pit pit.)
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Q

The quack quit asking quick questions.

The queen coined quick clipped quips.

Quick kiss.
Quicker kiss.
Quickest kiss.
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R

A lump of red lead,
A red lead lump.

Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

Rex wrecks wet rocks.

Rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

Raise Ruth's red roof.

Roland road in a Rolls Royce.

Rush the washing, Russel!

Ruth's red roof.
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S

Sherman shops at cheap chop suey shops.

Selfish sharks sell shut shellfish.

Seth's sharp spacesuit shrank.

Sexist sixties.

She sells Swiss sweets.

She sells sea shells by the seashore.

Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.

Six crisp snacks.

Stagecoach stops.

Strange strategic statistics.

No shipshape ships shop stocks shop-soiled shirts.

No shark shares swordfish steak.

Short folder.

Sister Susie sewing shirts for soldiers.

Six sick sheep.

Six shy shavers sheared six shy sheep.

The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

A woman to her son did utter,
"Go my son, and shut the shutter."
"The shutter's shut," the son did utter,
"I cannot shut it any shutter."

Spark plug car park.

Such a shapeless sash!

Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter,
seized his knees and sneezed.

A skunk sat on a stump.
The stump thunk the skunk stunk.
The skunk thunk the stump stunk.

Sheila is selling her shop at the seashore,
For shops at the seashore are so sure to lose.
Now she's not so sure of what she should be selling!
Should Sheila sell seashells or should she sell shoes?

If he slipped, should she slip?

Miss Smith dismisseth us.

I'm a sheet slitter. I slit sheets.
I am the best sheet slitter that ever slit a sheet.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit.

The swan swam over the sea. Swim swan swim.
The swan swam back again. Well swum, swan.

Synonym cinnamon.

Six thick thistle sticks.

Mr. See and Mr. Soar were old friends.
See owned a saw and Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See, which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw before See saw Soar's seesaw,
then See's saw would not have sawed Soar's seesaw.
But See saw Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See's saw so See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
It was a shame to let See see Soar so sore because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
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T

I shot three shy thrushes.

There goes one tough top cop!

Do thick tinkers think?

Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin.

(in Peruvian)
De un plato de trigo, comieron tres tristes tigres trigo.
(From a plate of wheat, three sad tigers ate wheat.)

Theopholus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
successfully sifted some thistles.

Truly rural.

Three free throws.

Thelma sings the theme song.

Toy boat.

Tacky tractor trailer trucks.

Twice we tripped toys.

A tutor 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?"

Twelve standard stainless steel twin screw cruisers.
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U

An undertaker undertook to under take an undertaking.
The undertaking that the undertaker undertook was the hardest undertaking the undertaker ever undertook to undertake.

Unique New York.

The U.S. twin-screw cruiser.
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V

What veteran ventriloquist whistles.

Valuable valley villas.
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W

Which rich wicked witch wished the wicked wish?

Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

Which witch watched which watch?

Irish wrist-watch.

Real wristwatch straps.

If two witches were watching two watches,
which witch would watch which watch?

Wetter weather never weathered wetter weather better.

Wally Winkle wriggles his white, wrinkled wig.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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X

X-Mas wrecks perplex and vex.

X-ray checks clear chests.

Ex-disk jockey.

The ex-egg examiner.
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Y

Yanking