TONGUE TWISTERS

Level: intermediate, Advanced

1. She sells sea shells by the seashore.
2. Three gay geese on three green hills.
3. 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 is the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper
picked?
4. Sarah sits by six sick city slickers.
5. Three throbbing thumping thrush thoroughly
thwarting thirty thrashers.
6. Round the rough and rugged rock the ragged
rascal rudely ran.
7. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck would chuck wood?
8. Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts.
9. Fresh flesh of fresh fried fish.
10. Seven serious southern soldiers setting sail south
suddenly.
11. One obstinate old ostrich ordering ordinary oranges.
12. Four fat friars fanning flickering flames.
13. Two tiny timid toads trying to trot to Tarrytown.
14. Sarah in a shawl shoveled soft snow softly.
15. Six thick thistle sticks.
16. How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can
cans.
17. 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.
Taken from:
ODDS & ENDS. Compiled by Donald L. Bouchard.
English Language Program Division. Bureau of Educational
And Cultural Affairs. United States Information Agency,
Washington ,D.C. 1988