Vocal Tongue twisters
Here we list some of the famous tongue-twisters to help you practice your pronunciation in English:
- Both bustled busily buttering buns
- Lots of hot coffee in a proper copper coffee pot
- Crispy crunchy crinkly crackling
- A dozen double adapters
- Red lorry, yellow lorry (repeat)
- Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran their rural races
- Silky soapsuds sparkling in the sun
- Succulent steaks and sizzling sausages
- Two toads totally tired of trying to trot to Tetbury
- Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves
- Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie-manager imagining an imaginary menagerie?
- Naughty Nettie’s knitting knotted nighties for the navy.
- Three tree twigs
- The seething sea ceaseth seething
- A bootblack blacks boots with a black blacking brush
- A regal rural ruler
- Slim Sam slid sideways
- Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
- Black bubbling brooks break brawling o’er their bounds
- The bitter blast blew bitingly through the bleak bare branches that day
- A glimpse of gurgling water in a gloomy gully
- Five fifths of the fifers are famed for their fun
- A thatcher thrice thrust through the thickest thatch
- She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are sea shells I’m sure.
- What a to-do to die today, at a minute or two to two; a thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do. We’ll beat a tattoo, at twenty to two, a rat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tattoo 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.
- 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, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
- Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter is sure to make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she put it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So t’was better Betty Botter bought of a bit of better butter.
- A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor “Is it easier to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
- “I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son, I’m only plucking pheasants ‘till the pheasant plucker comes.”
- How much wood could a Wood Chuck chuck if a Wood Chuck could chuck wood? As much wood as a Wood Chuck could chuck if a Wood Chuck could chuck wood.
- It is easier to get Asian Aid to Asia by Easyjet air and eating eases the easy aeroplane ride.