Tongue Twisters

[Pensive]

I got the idea of starting the thread from formality-hater's signature:
"I am a freak, lives in a freaky street and freaks on my freaky fate"
Good one, formality!

I have always found Tongue Twisters to be fun. Here are some good one's:

English Tongue Twisters
~I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.
~If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
How do I understand that you understand? Understand!
~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.
~How many cans can a canner can, if a canner can can cans?

And here comes my favourite one:
A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him

Urdu Tongue Twisters
~Nazr ne nazr ko nazr bhar keh dekha, nazr ko nazr ki nazr lag gayi
~qoh basti bhi kiya basti hai, jis basti mein too hansti hay, us basti keh bas jaanay seh, meray dil ki basti basti hai.

Now I will love to see what kind of tongue twisters you like. Please post the one's you like, can be in other languages as well. And don't forget to tell us that which tongue twister did you find most difficult to pronounce?

[papayahed]

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[Pensive]

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Oh difficult one, I am never able to pronounce this one.

[IrishCanadian]

I LOVE toungue-twisters. On boreing nights I will walk around the house and resite everyone I can think of. There are two that took my the longest to say fast:
"Peggy Babcock" is probably the toughest one ever, maybe worse than "Toy boat" ... but may favorite is "A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk."
Good luck pals.

[Pensive]

I LOVE toungue-twisters. On boreing nights I will walk around the house and resite everyone I can think of. There are two that took my the longest to say fast:
"Peggy Babcock" is probably the toughest one ever, maybe worse than "Toy boat" ... but may favorite is "A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk."
Good luck pals.

I don't find "Peggy Babcock" and "Toy Boat" really tough but the third one "A skunk.......stunk" is really tough!

[IrishCanadian]

Thats impressive Pensive ... I don't think I've ever met anyone that can match my nerdily practiced speed at Peggy Babcock five times in a row ... but I shant brag: I'm far too out of practice.

[papayahed]

She sells seashells down by the seashore. (I think that's how it goes)

[Pensive]

Thats impressive Pensive ... I don't think I've ever met anyone that can match my nerdily practiced speed at Peggy Babcock five times in a row ... but I shant brag: I'm far too out of practice

Oh, I also can't say it too quickly, so I guess that it is not that much impressive.

~Good one Papaya!

[SleepyWitch]

Three sweet switched Swiss witches
Watch three washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switches.
Which sweet switched Swiss witch watches
Which washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switch?

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
"Is it tougher to toot
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

not really a tongue twister, but a nursery rhyme (it's difficult enough for foreign learners to get the rhythm right, though):
The king asked the queen and the queen asked the dairy maid "Could we have some butter for the royal slice of bread?" The dairy maid said "Certainly. I'll go and ask the cow now before she goes to bed."

and a riddle+tongue twister:
As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits; kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?"

the one about the toad is hilarious, Pensy, I'll save it and use it to teach my pupils the diff between "th" and "t"

[Pensive]

Three sweet switched Swiss witches
Watch three washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switches.
Which sweet switched Swiss witch watches
Which washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switch?

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
"Is it tougher to toot
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

not really a tongue twister, but a nursery rhyme (it's difficult enough for foreign learners to get the rhythm right, though):
The king asked the queen and the queen asked the dairy maid "Could we have some butter for the royal slice of bread?" The dairy maid said "Certainly. I'll go and ask the cow now before she goes to bed."

and a riddle+tongue twister:
As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits; kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?"

the one about the toad is hilarious, Pensy, I'll save it and use it to teach my pupils the diff between "th" and "t"

Oh man, these first two are really very hard to pronounce. I have tried but I am not being able to... *frowns*

Aswer of riddle: Four wives were going to St. Ives... (I might be wrong...)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

how many were going to St. Ives?

Considering the fact that you met that lot, I suppose they were going in the other direction? So: Just you...

/Claes

[SleepyWitch]

hehe, yep it's only one person who's going to St Ives... as he meets the others on the way there, they must be coming from St Ives, not going there.....

the first time i read this i got fooled and started to display an uncharacteristical talent for maths it didn't have any long term effect though

[Miss Darcy]

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

Argh! Even a fingertwister to type!

[Pensive]

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

Argh! Even a fingertwister to type!

Oh, now I am able to pronounce it after reading it for three or four times!

[formality hater]

At first I could not get it right but now its a piece of cake:
Betty bought a bit of butter but the butter was so bitter so she bought another butter to make the bitter butter better.
...but i dont like it.