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intended to be difficult to say, especially when repeated quickly and often”. If you too want
to improve or perfect your English pronunciation, dive into the complete list of English tongue
twisters listed below: from short tongue twisters to tongue twisters for kids and hard tongue
twisters to further challenge your pronunciation.
But Eminem’s songs and long tongue twisters are challenging for those who are not ready for
long runs. Are you? Can you defeat Eminem? Let’s find out. Take a deep breath and try saying
the following tongue twister without stopping.
At one point, “the sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick” held the Guinness World Record
for the hardest twister, but since the category no longer exists, the title was probably revoked.
Don’t worry though! We are not running out of options. In 2013, MITresearchers concluded that
“pad kid poured curd pulled cod” is the hardest tongue twister in the world. In fact,
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, an MIT psychologist, says you will get a prize if you manage to say
that 10 times quickly. And not any kind of “quickly”. We’re talking super-sonic-Eminem-
quickly!
Take a little brother, sister, or your own kid, and let’s see who wins the challenge!
97. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
98. 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.
99. 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.
100. Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
The world-famous Peter Piper tongue twister first appeared in print sometime in 1813, in a
book called “Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation”, though
it is believed that it may have already been in common use by that time. Fast forward to today,
people all around the world still love to have a laugh and twist their tongues with this rhyme and
many others. And now you do too.