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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: The Walrus Date: 31 May 07 - 09:23 PM "Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows! Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles Than the saucy, soft, short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Anne Lister Date: 31 May 07 - 03:44 PM A French one for you ...."Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont elles seches, archiseches?" "Are the Archduchess's slippers dry, arch-dry?" doesn't really work in English, however. Anne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: RangerSteve Date: 30 May 07 - 06:55 PM No, Beth beeth fine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Joe_F Date: 29 May 07 - 10:37 PM Bill D: Poundstone did have "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" & found it to be the second-hardest, with 30% of successes on the first try. It & "The seething sea..." (3%) were the only two that foiled a majority of his sample. (_The Ultimate_, Doubleday, 1990, Chap. 7) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 29 May 07 - 09:01 PM The "Moses Supposes" shows up in a song from the film "Singin' in the Rain". Stephen Lee |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Jack Campin Date: 29 May 07 - 07:52 PM A few posted by George Aaron Broadwell to sci.lang back in 1991: A Zapotec tongue twister (dialect of Mitla): Tsu'un buin zu^n kayu'n dzu`n kato'p bidzui`n. 'Thirteen men from Tlacochahuaya work with honey.' Two Choctaw tongue twisters: Chinchilla chikchiki chi_chokcolilaachi_h. 'I'm going to tickle your speckled chinchilla.' Sho_shi showa showaka_ ishashshowaho_? 'Do you smell the stink bug stinking?' [Phonetics: underline after a vowel means it's nasal. ^ is falling tone, `is low tone, ' is high tone, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Bill D Date: 29 May 07 - 04:50 PM so, now I need to call my friend Beth, just 'B'? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: RangerSteve Date: 29 May 07 - 04:26 PM Two of the contributions above use the words "Dismisseth" and "Sufficeth". Those two words alone are tough enough to say. I'm glad we've dropped the "eth" from the language. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Mrrzy Date: 29 May 07 - 02:28 PM Well, that wasn't how I meant it to work, but it works. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Mrrzy Date: 29 May 07 - 02:28 PM Found it . Oy and extremely vey! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Mrrzy Date: 29 May 07 - 02:23 PM Glad someone else said Toy Boat. It's short and impossible to repeat. And isn't the moses supposing one part of a song? What song? I have the tune but none of the other verses in my futile little brain. What about ones in other languages? The Hungarians have a great one about many-colored-tail magpies, and how only they have many-colored tails, but I can't remember it all... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Bert Date: 29 May 07 - 01:46 PM The Peggy Babcock one was already noted. Of course - You have to say it THREE TIMES!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Bill D Date: 29 May 07 - 01:45 PM The Peggy Babcock one was already noted. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Ythanside Date: 29 May 07 - 01:26 PM Try repeating the name 'Peggy Babcock' a few times. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Rapparee Date: 29 May 07 - 01:26 PM I am not a pheasant plucker I'm a pheasant plucker's son And I'm busy plucking pheasants 'Til the pheasant plucking's done. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Bill D Date: 29 May 07 - 01:24 PM "The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us. (According to William Poundstone, this last one is by far the hardest." I gather he had not run into the one I posted about the Sheik and his sheep. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 29 May 07 - 10:02 AM Does anyone remember the full text to "Thoepholous Thistle"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 29 May 07 - 08:47 AM I'm not sure whether you'd classify this as a tongue-twister or not, but I like it: Moses supposes his toeses are roses But Moses supposes erroneously. For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, As Moses supposes his toeses to be. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Georgiansilver Date: 29 May 07 - 03:36 AM I'm surprised no-one has done the Peter Piper one. 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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 May 07 - 03:13 AM Red lorry, yellow lorry. Say that quickly and see how tangled you get! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 29 May 07 - 02:23 AM Say "Toy Boat" five times if you can. Stephen Lee |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Gurney Date: 29 May 07 - 01:02 AM 'The Leith Police...' is a beauty. Some people (Her Indoors) can't say it as a sentence at all, and I can say it when I'm totally shikkered. "You're drunk!" "No I'm not. I can still say...." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Rapparee Date: 28 May 07 - 10:26 PM Two country singers are going to honor a third with a special tour, starting in New Jersey. Yes, it's the Tritt-Twain Twitty Trenton Tribute Tour! Not many people are asking for tickets for some reason.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Joe_F Date: 28 May 07 - 09:51 PM 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. She sits by the seashore selling seashells. If the party of the first part lease a great grater to the party of the second part, and the party of the second part lease a little grater to the party of the first part, then the party of the first part, being the lessor of the greater grater and the lessee of the lesser grater, shall be deemed the greater lessor and the lesser lessee, whereas the party of the second part, being the lessor of the lesser grater and the lessee of the greater grater, shall be deemed the lesser lessor and the greater lessee. Sixty-six sick chicks. The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us. (According to William Poundstone, this last one is by far the hardest. In his sample, only 3% got it right the first time.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Little Hawk Date: 28 May 07 - 09:42 PM Ba'gjogjoegj'tphtt!!! I tried, Steve. I see just what you mean. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: RangerSteve Date: 28 May 07 - 08:01 PM This is a zither. (It's easy the first time, but try repeating it fast). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Bert Date: 28 May 07 - 07:41 PM The cricket critic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Little Hawk Date: 28 May 07 - 07:18 PM ...up to the challenge, I mean. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Little Hawk Date: 28 May 07 - 07:18 PM Oh, great stuff! I knew you people would be up the challenge. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: GUEST,Observer Date: 28 May 07 - 05:52 PM I'm not a fig plucker I'm a fig plucker's son But I'll pluck your figs till the fig plucker comes! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: gnomad Date: 28 May 07 - 04:25 PM The sea shells she sells are the sweetest, I'm sure. This is the "finish the quote" thread, right? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 28 May 07 - 04:13 PM And no one has mentioned She sells sea shells by the sea shore? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Jeanie Date: 28 May 07 - 03:53 PM I do like the grip top sock one, Dave - that's a new one on me. The very best tongue-twister I've ever come across is this one (said over and over, faster and faster): Peggy Babcock Looks easy...but just try it. When you *have* mastered it, move on to "Peggy Babcock, Babcock Peggy". It's the best warm-up exercise ever for vocal clarity when singing or speaking. - jeanie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Georgiansilver Date: 28 May 07 - 02:07 PM Are you copper bottoming'em my man? No I'm alluminiuming'em mom. She shuts up the shutters and sits in the shop. Ladies.....please read and then look away to say it....quickly of course...."I'm going to chew, chew, chew until my jaws drop off". The Leith Police dismisseth us. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: dick greenhaus Date: 28 May 07 - 01:21 PM Some classics: Unique New York The big black bug bled black blood Rubber baby buggy bumpers One fig plucker, he plucked figs Two dig pluckers, they plucked figs Three fig pluckers, they all plucked figs. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit And on this slitted sheet I sit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Dave Swan Date: 28 May 07 - 01:02 PM I'm a sucker for these things. Here are three I really like. Give me the gift of a grip-top sock, A clip drape shipshape tip top sock. Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock, But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock. None of your fantastic slack swap slop From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop. Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock. Not a supersheet seersucker ruck sack sock, Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block. Nothing slipshod dirp drop flip flop or glip glop Tip me to a tip top grip top sock. The Leith police dismisseth us. She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in. It takes two beers for me to remember the grip top sock, three to forget it. D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Peace Date: 28 May 07 - 12:55 PM Tongue twisters from Guantanamo. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: kendall Date: 28 May 07 - 12:22 PM The skunk went up the stump. The stump said the skunk stunk, the skunk said the stump stunk and the skunk went down the stump. The was an old man from Lickity Lack He fell downstars with a stove on his back, He quickly got up and said with a frown I'm all stove up, but I got the stove down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Bill D Date: 28 May 07 - 12:02 PM "The Sheik's sixth slick, sleek sheep is sick", she said, as she entered Miss Smith's fish shop. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 28 May 07 - 11:45 AM Repeat aluminum, linoleum quickly and see how long it takes for you to get tongue-tangled. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Ebbie Date: 28 May 07 - 11:36 AM Answer: Nuttin' |
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Subject: BS: Tongue twisters! From: Little Hawk Date: 28 May 07 - 11:01 AM Here's one. How many nuts would a nuthatch hatch if a nuthatch could hatch nuts? Now say that quickly, ten times in a row, and see if you can get it right. Betcha can't! |
