Jim Lawton: I'm glad to have found another fan of "PEGGY BABCOCK" ! It is a deceptively simple but incredibly demanding mix of consonants, leaping from front to back to front to back and is the very best all-round warm-up I've ever come across. If there's no time for anything else, a string of Peggy Babcocks, at increasing speed, works wonders for vocal clarity. For real show-offs, once Peggy Babcock has been mastered at 200 miles per hour, there is: "Peggy Babcock, Babcock Peggy."

Some other favourites of mine as clarity exercises to be spoken over and over, with increasing speed and volume, starting from a whisper:

Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly (etc. etc. and said quickly (!) without any click or whistle)

Reading and writing are richly rewarding

Keencut cutlery cuts keenest and cleanest of all: Keencut cutlery

My organs of articulation
Were a definite vexation
Until I said this silly rhyme
Three times through


- jeanie