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[lucy_ever]

hello,i need a tongue twister, and it's for a chinese boy,(he's just nine years old )who has a english competetion in one or two days, who can give me some examples or tell me some web sites.

[Anuradha Chepur]

This one is my favourite:

There were two persons called Chip Chop and Chop Chip. Chip Chop told Chop Chip that he would chip his chop, and Chop Chip told Chip Chop that he would chop his chip. But neither Chip Chop chipped Chop Chip's chop , nor Chop Chip chopped Chip Chop's chip.

[Lorikeet]

I googled "tongue twister"

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html

[lotus]

Hi lucy_ever,

Here are three of my favourite children's tongue twisters:

She sells seashells by the seashore.
http://www.manythings.org/pp/she_sells_seashells.html

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
As much wood as a woodchuck would,
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
http://www.manythings.org/pp/woodchuck.html

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?

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

Not a tongue twister, but fun to say!


--lotus

[redset]

Too simple to win a competition maybe, but try saying 'red lorry, yellow lorry' over and over

[CP]

These look easy but are hard. Say each one at least three times fast:

Toy boat.

Red leather yellow leather.
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[Lorikeet]

Actually, my favorite is: Betty had a bit of bitter butter that made her batter bitter, so Betty bought a bit of better butter that made her batter better.

I've seen it as "Betty Botter" as well, and with "and" instead of "that" etc. I use it for the American English "tap" sound in "water" or "butter", and since it is the same for "had a" and "bit of" and "made her" it flows along. I don't know how it would be in British English, but maybe not as fun.

[lucy_ever]

thankyou for all of you

[Anuradha Chepur]

If a doctor falls sick, and another doctor comes to doctor the doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor the doctor being doctored, as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or the doctor doing the doctoring doctors the doctor being doctored as the doctor doing the doctoring wants to doctor.

[CP]

Then there is the old stand-by:

"Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers."

Say that a few times fast.

A baby buggy or stroller is what the British call a perambulator or pram. Of course, we must make the baby buggy safe, so we arm them with bumpers. . . .
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