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geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

I have found that tongue twisters are widely popular with my students. Whenever I broach the subject, my students insist on having me try out their own.

To that end I have decided to come up with some new ones in English other than what the woodchucks, peter, and the shellseller have done.

The usually whining wino wined and dined without whining about no wine.

Let that be a challenge to those out there. I am sure you can come up with many much better.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

I've tried to work with much shorter tongue-twisters that work minimal pairs for Spanish speakers. Long and short vowel i, v/b, s/z, for example. I've never seen much value in highly mechanical tongue twisters, preferring to work on more everyday items.

September 13th, 1933, for example. Simple date expression, working the th

Everybody voted in vain. for v/b

debmport · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Guadalaholla

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the most difficult toungue twister.

Say it 5 times quickly

TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

notamiss · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:01 am Post subject:

Minimal pairs...

Vote Liberal.

Eat it.

Tread a light thread through the threats of truth.

GueroPaz · Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 216 Location: Thailand or Mexico

King Kong sang along in sing-song as he played ping-pong wrong from Singapore to Hong Kong....nahh, that does not test the right phonemes.

Skinny, smart stutterers splashed across the slippery, shiny, smashed skittles scattered on the sludge.

danielita · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 281 Location: SLP

sheep choose cheap shoes

It's great for spanish speakers to practice the sh/ch pronunciation

MELEE · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject:

Google it and you can find English tongue twisters for every letter.

For learners I love simple ones.

Red letter, yellow letter.
Say that over and over and over fast--particularly with the north american "flap t"

Another great one is

Leather lizards.

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

Two extremely difficult ones:

Are you copper-bottoming 'em, my man?
No, I'm aluminiuming 'em, Mum! (Better with BrE pronounciation of "al-u-min-i-um-ing)

She sat on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him and welcoming him in.

(Try them fast!) Very Happy

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

How about

Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock