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Tongue Twisters

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

The big black back brake broke badly.

Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers. (Repeat & increase tempo.)

Comical Economists. (Repeat & increase tempo.)

Dick kicks sticky bricks.

I thought a thought but the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.

Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.

One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.

All I want is a proper cup of coffee, made in a proper copper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots, they're no use to me. If I can't have a proper cup of coffee, in a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea.

Red bulb, blue bulb. (Repeat & increase tempo)

Sally sells seashells down by the seashore.

Say this sharply, say this sweetly, say this shortly, say this softly. (Say this sixteen times very quickly.)

Shave a single shingle thin.

The sixth sick sheik’s son slept.

She sold six shabby sheared sheep on a ship.

Three free throws. (Repeat & increase tempo)

These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.

Unique New York. (Repeat & increase tempo)

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

The big beautiful blue balloon burst.

Buy blue blueberry biscuits before bedtime.

A bragging baker baked black bread.

Cinnamon aluminum linoleum. (Repeat & increase tempo)

Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.

Flora’s freshly fried fish.

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.

Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.

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?

Red Blood Blue Blood. (Repeat & increase tempo)

Red Leather, Yellow Leather. (Repeat & increase tempo)

Sasha sews slightly slashed sheets shut.

A shapeless sash sags slowly.

She should shun the shinning sun.

She should shun the shinning sun.

Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.

Toy boat. (Repeat & increase tempo)

Two tiny timid toads trying to trot to Tarrytown.

What a to do to die today at a minute or two to two. A thing distinctly hard to say, and harder still to do. For they'll beat a tattoo at twenty to two, a rat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-too. And the dragon will come when he hears the drum, at a minute or two to two today. At a minute or two to two.

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood. A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood!

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