A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results that are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister
Read the following rapidly but clearly:
- The Leith police dismisseth us.
- His beard descending swept his aged breast.
- A wight well versed in waggish ways.
- Whither went the witch? Which Witch?
- Five wives weave withes.
- James was jesting when he adjured Jennie to jump over the juniper hedge.
- She sells sea-shells in a salt-fish shop.
- Rory Rumpus rode a raw-boned racer.
- Hark how the horse's hoofs hammer on the hard high road.
- Last year I could not hear with either ear.
- Is that the Lor Mayor's mare.
- She is a thistle sifter and she has a sieve of sifted thistles, and a sieve of unsifted thistles, because she is a thistle sifter.
- Should such a shapely sash such shabby stitches show?
- He is literally literary.
- And ere her ear had heard her heart had heard.
- She sees a shot-silk sash-shop, full of silk sashes, where the sun shines on the shop signs.
- I snuff shop snuff, do you snuff shop snuff?
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister
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