Grating Ratings: Tongue Twisters
How do these tongue twisters stack up? Please, feel free to try saying these tongue twisters right now!
- Cher shot Sharif, the shoddy city sheriff: B Here's one you don't want to mess up in front of grandma!
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?: F I don't know if this one has ever twisted my tongue.
- I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant pluckers mate and I'm only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late: B+ This four-line tongue twister is a bit long for my taste, but it's a great one to try out. Though it's not particularly hard if you can read it, it's a doozy when you do mess up!
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers: D- The only hard part about saying this traditional tongue twister is that I always try and figure out what a "peck" is.
- Red rubber baby buggy bumpers: C- This one is a classic tongue twister, though I've never seen a bumper on a baby buggy before.
- She sold six Swiss wristwatches: A I like this tongue twister because it has just five words, but gets me almost every single time.
- Unique New York: A I appreciate this one for its simplicity. When I tell this one to people, they scoff — until they try to say it. I like the deceptiveness hidden here.
Please feel free to leave a comment. What do you agree or disagree with, and why? Which items do you wish were included that I didn't cover here?
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July 28th, 2007 at 23:17
"I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit."
"I am not a fig plucker, nor a fig plucker's son, but I will keep plucking figs til the fig plucking's done."
July 28th, 2007 at 23:21
I know the fig plucker, but it's too similar to the chicken plucker one
July 28th, 2007 at 23:24
It is very similar, yes.
July 28th, 2007 at 23:25
There's one my friend Kayla knows that begins, "If you're going to put your liquor in your locker, it is swift to put a lock upon your stock." But that's more of an enunciation aid than a tongue twister. Ahh, theater kids.
July 29th, 2007 at 06:49
peck = 1/4 a bushel or about 2.3 gallons
July 29th, 2007 at 09:14
My favorite is Two tutors who tooted the flute, tried to tutor two tooters to toot, said the two to the tutor, Is is harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?
July 29th, 2007 at 13:32
a skunk sat on a stump. the skunk thunk the stump stunk, and the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
almost as difficult to type as to say!
December 9th, 2007 at 13:06
this is kinda like the above one but its different
the skunk sat on the stump, jump skunk jump
February 8th, 2008 at 15:14
My eighth-grade English teacher taught us this one, and I've never seen it anywhere else, including the Internet:
Said Simple Sally Susan to Smiling Simon Samuel Simpsons, "Shall Simple Sally Susan and Smiling Simon Samuel Simpson go sailing on Smiling Simon Samuel Simpson's small sailboat?" "Sure!" said Simple Sally Susan to Smiling Simon Samuel Simpson. So Simple Sally Susan and Smiling Simon Samuel Simpson went sailing on Smiling Simon Samuel Simpson's small sailboat, singing silly, sweet songs.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:29
Those are all great ones, this one has to be said aloud to be fully enjoyed:
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"One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they all felt smart."
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It is somewhat long, but there are no complex words so seems very simple… until you attempt to say it quickly–then the fun starts. Enjoy.