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From: "Gunther Volk" <gunther_volk@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [etni] fw: something cute that could be used in class
Judy wrote:
Subject: something cute that could be used in class Somebody sent me this and I though it might be fun to use it in class... Three Swiss witches watch three Swatch watches. Which Swiss witch watches which Swatch watch?
Thanks Judy for the tongue twister. It reminded me a list I collected from an anthology of British tongue twisters. Maybe my compilation is of use to you and others too.
Best wishes,
Gunther
Sounds: p / b 1. Billy Bampton bought blackberries, buttons and biscuits.
2. Betty bit a bit of butter,
But is was a bitter bite:
But a bit of better butter
Betty never bit.
3. Billy Badger brought the bear a bit of boiled bacon in a brown bag.
4. Mrs Pipple Popple popped a pebble in poor Polly Pepper¹s eye.
5. Pretty Polly Perkin polished pastel plates and plaster plaques.
6. The busy bee buzzed busily around the busy beehive.
7. The Pope poked a poker at the piper. So the piper poked some pepper
at the Pope.
Sounds: t / d 1. Twenty talented teachers teaching tiny tots their twice times table.
2. The dustman daily does his duty to dislodge the dirty dust deposited
in disgusting dusty dustbins.3. Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin.
Sound: m 1. Michael and Moses have very keen noses
And very fine hoses for watering roses.
2. Mother made Mary, Minnie and Molly march many times round the room to
martial music.
Sounds: w / v / f 1. The woman wound the wool well while the wild wind whistled.
2. Wishy-washy Wilfred wished to win a wager.
3. Willie¹s wooden whistle wouldn¹t whistle.
4. Will real wheels really wheel?
5. Wise wives whistle while weaving worsted waistcoats.
6. Forty fat farmers found a field of fine fresh fodder,
now, if forty fat farmers found a field of fine fresh fodder,
where is the field of fine fresh fodder those forty fat farmers
found?7. Once a feller
Met a feller
In a field of beans.
Said a feller
To a feller
Can a feller
Tell a feller
What a feller means?
8. Vera valued the valley violets.
9. Violet vainly viewed the vast vacant vista.
Sounds: s / z 1. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn¹t fuzzy,
Was he?
2. Sooty Sukey
Shook some soot
From sister Susie¹s
Sooty shoes.
3. Silly Sammy Stokes spilt some sticky syrup on the stove.
4. Seventeen slimy slugs in satin sunbonnets sat singing short sad
songs.5. Shy Sam Smith thought Sarah Short so sweet.
6. Three Swiss witches watch three Swiss "Swatch" watches.
Which Swiss witch watches which Swiss "Swatch" watch?
Sounds: ch / sh / 1. Charlie chooses cheese and cherries.
2. Slim Sam shaved six slippery chins in six seconds.
3. Six skyscrapers stood snugly side by side shimmering by the seashore.
Sounds: g / c 1. Good, better, best,
Never let it rest,
Till your good is better,
And your better best.
2. How much caramel
Can a canny cannibal
Cram into a camel,
if a canny cannibal
can cram caramel
into a camel?
3. Three grey geese crept into Clitheroe Castle
Out of Clitheroe Castle crept three grey geese.
Sound: th 1. A thatcher was thatching a thatch.
³Good morning, Thatcher,
The next time you thatch a thatch,
Thatch a thick thatch, Thatcher.
2. Thus the thug threatened the thoroughly thoughtful theologist.
3. Thelma saw thistle in the thick thatch.
4. Three sick thrushes sang thirty-six thrilling songs.
5. The sixth sick sheikh¹s sixth sheep¹s sick.
6. They threw three thick things.
7. Three Scotch thistles in the thicket.
8. Through six thick swamps stumbled Sammy.
Source: Ken Parkin's Anthology of British Tongue Twisters, Samuel French, London 1994
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