50 TONGUE TWISTERS TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLISH

Tongue twisters are a great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency. They can also help
to improve accents by using alliteration, which is the repetition of one sound. They’re not just for kids,
but are also used by actors, politicians, and public speakers who want to sound clear when speaking.
Below, you will find some of the most popular English tongue twisters. Say them as quickly as you can. If
you can master them, you will be a much more confident speaker.

1. 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?

2. 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 will make my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter

3. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood

4. She sells seashells by the seashore

5. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
6. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
7. I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop
8. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines
9. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
10. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
11. I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late
12. You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York
13. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen
14. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
15. I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you
16. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
17. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
18. Eddie edited it
19. Willie’s really weary
20. A big black bear sat on a big black rug
21. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks
22. He threw three free throws
23. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
24. So, this is the sushi chef
25. Four fine fresh fish for you
26. Wayne went to wales to watch walruses
27. Six sticky skeletons (x3)
28. Which witch is which? (x3)
29. Snap crackle pop (x3)
30. Flash message (x3)
31. Red Buick, blue Buick (x3)
32. Red lorry, yellow lorry (x3)
33. Thin sticks, thick bricks (x3)
34. Stupid superstition (x3)
35. Eleven benevolent elephants (x3)
36. Two tried and true tridents (x3)
37. Rolling red wagons (x3)
38. Black back bat (x3)
39. She sees cheese (x3)
40. Truly rural (x3)
41. Good blood, bad blood (x3)
42. Pre-shrunk silk shirts (x3)
43. Ed had edited it. (x3)
44. We surely shall see the sun shine soon
45. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
46. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread
47. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit
48. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
49. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better
50. Of all the vids I’ve ever viewed, I’ve never viewed a vid as valued as Alex’s engVid vid
51. Difficult Tongue Twisters
52. Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
53. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
[According to The Guinness Book of World Records this is the toughest tongue twister - so far.]
54. Funny Tongue Twisters
55. Round the rough and rugged rock the ragged rascal rudely ran.
56. All I want is a proper cup of coffee,
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot
But I want a cup of coffee
From a proper coffee pot.

Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots

They're no use to me -
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot
I'll have a cup of tea.
57. Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
58. Two tiny timid toads trying to trot to Tarrytown.
59. Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts.
60. Quizzical quiz, kiss me quick.
61. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
62. What a to do to die today
At a minute or two to two
A thing distinctly hard to say
And harder still to do.

For they'll beat a tattoo at twenty to two

A rat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-Tat-tat-tat-too
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.
63. Eve eating eagerly elegant Easter eggs.
64. Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
65. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
66. Tongue Twisters for Kids
67. A proper copper coffee pot.
68. One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.
69. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
70. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
71. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
72. Easy Tongue Twisters
73. He threw three free throws.
74. slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
75. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
76. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
77. I like New York, unique New York, I like unique New York.
78. Four fine fresh fish for you.
79. A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.
80. Short Tongue Twisters (3x)
81. Six sticky skeletons.
82. Which witch is which?
83. She sees cheese.
84. Stupid superstition.
85. Eleven benevolent elephants.
86. Truly rural.
87. Tongue Twisters About Thinking & Feeling
88. Three thin thinkers thinking thick thoughtful thoughts.

89. Of all the felt I ever felt,

I never felt a piece of felt
which felt as fine as that felt felt,
when first I felt that felt hat's felt.

90. 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.

91. I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

92. I thought a thought.

But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.
Tongue twisters with “th”
• The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
• I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought
Wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought,
Had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn’t have thought I thought.
• Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered
threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug – although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-
thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty-year-old thug thought
of that morning.
• Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.