7 November: Tongue Twister Day

Today is Tongue Twister Day, so here is a selection of them to get your tongue twisted around.

1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
2. She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure. For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.
3. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.
4. The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
5. Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter And made her batter bitter. But a bit of better butter makes better batter. So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better.
6. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck. If a woodchuck could chuck wood. He would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck. If a woodchuck would chuck wood.
7. A Proper Copper Coffee Pot.
8. The sign language equivalent of a tongue twister is called a finger-fumbler. The phrase Good blood, bad blood is a tongue-twister in English as well as a finger-fumbler in ASL.
9. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
10. Tie twine to three tree twigs.

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