What is tongue twister?
A formula of sequence of words difficult to pronounce without blundering.
[The Chambers Dictionary]
A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game.
[Wikipedia]
Now we have understood the meaning of tongue twister. Now, let try this one..=)
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
How many boards could the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
These are the tongue twister that my group need to present and teach them to the other friends. Though the tongue twister look simple and easy but never judge a book by its cover, ok! It was a challenge since to pronounce /s/ and /sh/, it was a bit tricky as we can easily to slip in pronouncing the words.
Thus, to overcome it, my group had practiced the tongue twister a thousand times until we were satisfied and we end up to find out the beat for the tongue twister which end up it sounded really nice. Besides, to make it much easier we had chunk the words and it really help to pronounce them correctly and clearly. We were really excited and glad that we can make it. Yippie! =)
Now, I will give you all a few examples of tongue twister. Try to say it out properly and clearly. Can you say them out quickly? Which are the most difficlt and challenging one?
Good Luck & Enjoys! ^_^
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?
There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don't eat with your mouth full!
"Little Mabel blew a bubble, and it caused a lot of trouble...
Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way.
For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table,
where it bobbled over Baby and it wafted him away."
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