четверг, 17 января 2013 г.

Tongue-twisters


1) Whether the weather is cold.
Whether the weather is hot.
We'll whether the weather,
whatever the weather,
whether we like it or not.

2) 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?

3) Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

4) She sells sea shells on the seashore.
The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.

5) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

6) What noise annoys an oyster most?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

7) Red lolly, yellow lolly.

8) A tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"

9) 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.

10) Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

11) [w]
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

12) [t]
A tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"

13) [s - ʃ]
She sells sea shells on the seashore.
The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.

14). [θ]
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.

15) [w - ʧ ]
How much wood could a woodchuck chuckif a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

16). [θ]
Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

17). [ʤ]
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?


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