Questions tagged [tongue-twisters]
For questions about tongue twisters, which are alliterative sentences designed to be difficult to pronounce fluently and fluidly. A famous example is 'she sells seashells by the seashore'.
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Is this tongue-twister grammatical?
The tongue-twister goes:
Can a can of canned cans can a canned can of cans, if a can of canned cans can can a canned can of cans? Yes, a can of canned cans can can a canned can of cans, if a canned ...
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Did Peter Piper steal a peck of American pickled peppers?
In the children's renowned tongue twister, which was first published in London 1813, we learn
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter ...
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Meaning of the "don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring"
Today we encountered this tongue twister:
Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring
Is there any meaning of it? Or it's just a tongue twister without ...
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schwa and /æ/ in 'can you can a can as a canner can can a can'
Can somebody tell me when the sounds 'schwa' and /æ/ are used in the following tongue twister:
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can.
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Connected speech in a tongue twister
A friend of mine just forwarded me a tongue twister. And I got curious about a possible relation with connected speech
The pheasant plucker’s daughter sits plucking pheasants pleasantly
Such a ...
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Were tongue twisters meant for fun? Or were they intended for improving speech?
Of late, I have been reading and saying out loud a few tongue twisters in English after picking them up in one of the Facebook shares. While tongue twisters probably exist in all languages ever spoken,...
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Looking for a limerick, tongue twister or haiku [closed]
Has anyone come across a limerick, tongue twister or hai ku relating to the following words?
pear, pair, pare
Or does anyone want to make an attempt, something along the lines of "woodchuck chuck" ...
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Rubber baby buggy bumpers [closed]
Can someone explain the meaning of the following tongue twister:Rubber baby buggy bumpers? I am familiar with the meaning of individual words, but am still not sure that I get the meaning of the whole ...
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Tongue Twisters
Why are tongue twisters difficult (slower) to read aloud than non-twisters? Why would reading twisters silently continue to be difficult?
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could if a woodchuck could chuck wood!
What is the origin of this tongue-twister and ...