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Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells...
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: delphinium Date: 30 May 04 - 01:56 PM Bits Bytes Chips Clocks Bits in bytes on chips in box. Bytes with bits and chips with clocks. Chips in box on ether-docks ... See the full poem at http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/elz1/clocktower/DrSeuss.html. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST Date: 30 May 04 - 01:00 PM It's not exactly a standard, but one of my favorites, due to its sheer simplicity is: Toy boat (Repeat several times) |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 30 May 04 - 12:06 PM A flea and a fly were caught in a flaw in a flue. Said the flea, "Let us fly!" Said the fly, "Let us flee!" And they flew through the flaw in the flue. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Carly Date: 30 May 04 - 11:03 AM Mark, where did you get that? I learned an almost identical version of "The Announcer"s Test" ( no one mentioned a Jerry Lewis connection) in the late 1950s in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Doesn't seem to be around anymore among the kids (except for my son, who can't help having a weird parent who taught him all sorts of strange stuff before he was old enough to run and hide!) |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: RangerSteve Date: 30 May 04 - 09:04 AM This is a zither, this is a zither, this is a zither, etc. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 30 May 04 - 08:14 AM Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood." As much wood as a woodchuck would chuck, if a woodchuck would chuck wood. From very young (in the 50's), I remember seeing only once a Donald Duck comic in which the three nephews (Junior Woodchucks, of course!) had a much longer version. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 May 04 - 05:16 AM Scots verse for Glory Glory. As one flue fly flew up the flue The other flue fly flew down....etc. JGM |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Jeanie Date: 30 May 04 - 04:20 AM 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 |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: C-flat Date: 30 May 04 - 03:03 AM How much oil could a gum-boil boil, if a gum-boil could boil oil. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,Guest Date: 30 May 04 - 01:04 AM There's a limerick/twister kids song that goes like: A canner exceedingly canny One morning remarked to his granny A canner can can anything that he can But a canner can't can a can can he A tutor who tooted the flute Tried to tutor two tooters to toot Said the two to the tutor is it tougher to toot Or to tutor two tooters to toot A certain young fellow named Beebee Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe But he said I must see what the minister's fee be Before Phoebe be Phoebe Beebee |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: Mark Cohen Date: 30 May 04 - 12:57 AM OOPS! Help, Joeclone! Serves me right for not previewing. It was supposed to say "Jerry Lewis' Announcer's Test"... |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: Mark Cohen Date: 30 May 04 - 12:55 AM Padre, I learned more verses to that one: One slick snake slid up the stake And the other slick snake slid down One black bug bled blue-black blood And the other black bug bled blue One proud plover played ping-pong and poker And the other proud plover played pool (that one was mine) Don't forget Jerry Lewis' announcers' test One hen Two ducks Three squawking geese Four Limerick oysters Five corpulent Porpoises Six pairs of Don Alverzo's tweezers Seven hairy Macedonian's in full battle array Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt Nine apathetic sympathetic diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity to procrastination and sloth Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall around the corner of the quay of the quo of the quivery, all at the same time (That's almost exactly the way I learned it from Chris Gaynor in ninth grade!) Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 30 May 04 - 12:01 AM You're sort of youngster round Mr. Dix-on, Indeed.....Well....yes....we did once have a similar thread....it seems like only yesterday that I posted "Sheet Slitter" to the blade of the DT's reaper....and its chaff never fell into the winnowing wind.
Try http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=6806#40308
Sincerely, |
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Subject: Lyr Add: GLORY GLORY HOW PECULIAR From: Padre Date: 29 May 04 - 11:42 PM Rock Creek used to sing a tongue twister song called "Glory, Glory, How Peculiar" to the tune of 'John Brown's Body' with verses like: One sick sheik's sixth sheep was sick, And the other sick sheik's was not; One sick sheik's sixth sheep was sick, And the other sick sheik's was not; One sick sheik's sixth sheep was sick, And the other sick sheik's was not; One sick sheik's sixth sheep was sick, And the other sick sheik's was not; CHORUS: Glory, Glory, how peculiar, Glory, Glory, how peculiar Glory, Glory, how peculiar One sick sheik's sixth sheep was sick, And the other sick sheik's was not; One drunk duck dropped into the ditch, and the other drunk duck dropped dead One drunk duck dropped into the ditch, and the other drunk duck dropped dead One drunk duck dropped into the ditch, and the other drunk duck dropped dead One drunk duck dropped into the ditch, and the other drunk duck dropped dead CHORUS One eager eagle eased into the Eaves, And the other eagle eagle eased East, One eager eagle eased into the Eaves, And the other eagle eagle eased East, One eager eagle eased into the Eaves, And the other eagle eagle eased East, One eager eagle eased into the Eaves, And the other eagle eagle eased East, CHORUS Padre |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Gareth Date: 29 May 04 - 07:00 PM Hmmm ! A test of sobriety used by the Landkord of the Royal Oak, Ystrad Mynach is "Whats the name of this village". Despite my occasional stammer, I have yet to fail the test ! Gareth |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Georgiansilver Date: 29 May 04 - 03:03 PM She shuts up the shutters and sits in the shop. I rattled big bottles in Rollocks's yard. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper..If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, where's the peck of pickled pepper, Peter Piper picked. The Leith Police dismisseth us. Criminal statistics(repeat) |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: semi-submersible Date: 29 May 04 - 02:43 PM JGiokMcK, I've heard that one begin: What noise annoys an oyster, boys? There are more words for "thrusts his fists against the posts" and others here. M |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: robomatic Date: 29 May 04 - 02:15 PM LOL I've got a kids' Danny Kaye album with a song of tongue twisters: Hedda is hoping to hop to Tahiti To hatch a hibiscus to hang on her hat |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MARY MACK From: GUEST,Toenails John Date: 29 May 04 - 12:32 PM As mentioned above, Mary Mack, in full as I know it. CHORUS: Mary Mack's father’s making Mary Mack marry me. My father’s making me marry Mary Mack. I'm gonna marry Mary, so me Mary can take care of me, And we'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mack. Dithery oo dn da dn do n da a dithry idle day. (Just for respite!) Now there's this little lass I know, her name is Mary Mack. Of all the girls I know, 'tis her I'm going to back. A lot of other fellas'd like to climb upon her back, But I think they are very much mistaken. CHORUS Oh, she's a lovely little lass, and she has a lot of class, And she has a lot of brass coz her father deals in gas. I'd be a silly ass if I left the matter pass. I'm damned if I would ever find one better. CHORUS The wedding's on a Wednesday now and everything’s arranged. No sooner have they made their minds up, when their minds are changed. To think of the arrangements now, I'm nearly disarranged, For marriage is an awful undertaking. CHORUS It's sure to be a grand affair, or grander than a fair, And of course there'll be a coach and pair for every pair that's there. I'll be on the finest pair. I'll surely get my share. If I don't then I am very much mistaken. CHORUS It goes well then, as with all tongue twisters, to sing chorus very rapidly at the end of the song, but for a real laugh, finish, then announce you learnt the chorus backwards, as the audience gasp in astonishment at your talents, simply turn your back on them and repeat the chorus. Never ever fails! |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 May 04 - 12:25 PM What sort of noise annoys an oyster? A noisy noise annoys an oyster. JGM |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Peter T. Date: 29 May 04 - 11:25 AM "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood." in Dylan's voice, and to the tune of "Blowing in the Wind" is always good for a laugh. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 May 04 - 11:21 AM Old Mother Hunt had a rough cut punt Not a punt cut rough, but a rough cut punt. Oo-er Mrs JGM |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: masato sakurai Date: 29 May 04 - 11:20 AM Some collections: 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters (English 398) The Tongue Twister Database TONGUE TWISTERS FOR KIDS Tongue Twisters Tongue Twisters Tongue twisters |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: mack/misophist Date: 29 May 04 - 10:56 AM For those who lisp, there's: He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Bill D Date: 28 May 04 - 06:20 PM A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thunk the skunk stunk and The skunk thunk the stump stunk. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Joe_F Date: 28 May 04 - 06:12 PM I believe that "rubber baby buggy bumpers" is used as a sobriety test in some jurisdictions. Though Theophilus Thistledown, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, do not get any of the thistles stuck in thy tongue. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: s&r Date: 28 May 04 - 05:53 PM One smart feller and he felt smart Two smart fellers and they felt smart Three smart fellers and they felt smart etc Red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry etc Stu |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: DonMeixner Date: 28 May 04 - 05:52 PM Unique New York |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Bill D Date: 28 May 04 - 05:47 PM The sly Sheik's sixth sheep is sick. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: dick greenhaus Date: 28 May 04 - 05:43 PM How many figs could a fig-plucker pluck if a fig-plucker could pluck figs? I slit a sheet. A sheet I slit. And on this slitted sheet I sit. Big black bugs bleed black blood. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: Rapparee Date: 28 May 04 - 05:30 PM Shana Twain and Travis Trit are doing a Conway Twitty Memorial Tour in New Jersey. Right! It's the Twain-Trit Trenton Twitty Tribute Tour. I've also been partial to the "My Old Man's A..." song, as done by the Smother Brothers: "My old man's a cotton-pickin' finger-lickin' chicken plucker." Or I am not a pheasant plucker I'm a pheasant plucker's son And I'll be plucking pheasants 'Til the pheasant plucking's done. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: jimL Date: 28 May 04 - 05:16 PM The two worst short tongue twisters I know are :- Peggy Babcock and Rubber Buggy Bumpers neither of which can really be said twice in a row without practicing. in song, the only one which springs to mind is the chorus of Mary Mack's Mother:- Mary Mack's mither's makin' Mary Mack marry me My mither's makin' me marry Mary Mack When I marry Mary Mack, Mary will tak' care of me We'll a' be makin' merry when I marry Mary Mack jim |
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Subject: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Jim Dixon Date: 28 May 04 - 05:05 PM Hard to believe we've never had a thread about these before. I just ran across a new one (new to me anyway): "She stood upon the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping, and amicably welcoming him home." Of course, if you know of any songs deliberately written to have tongue-twisters in them, those would be especially welcome. |
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