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A collection of tongue twisters to test yourself on

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I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.

Are you copper-bottoming the saucepans, my son?
No, I'm aluminiuming 'em, Mum.

Saucepans  

We can use the hall from ten past one to sixteen past one and from twenty two to two to two to two too.

Emma, whereas Roger had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had the teacher's approval.

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's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, then Schott was shot, not Nott.
However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott.
So, Nott was shot and not Schott.

She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
The shells she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.

Sea shells  

The Leith police dismisseth us,
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us,
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs we sighed as we said our goodbyes
Were the size of the Leith police.

The thirty-three thieves thought they thrilled the throng that Thursday.

If Stu chooses to chew shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

How many cookies could a good cook cook
If a good cook could cook cookies?
A good cook could cook just as many cookies
as a good cook who could cook cookies.

How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground?
A groundhog would hog all the ground he could, if a groundhog could hog ground.

Woodchuck  

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if the woodchuck wouldn't chuck wood?
The woodchuck wouldn't chuck any wood at all if the woodchuck wouldn't chuck wood.

Betty Botta bought some butter;
“But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter!
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit o’ better butter
Will but make my batter better.”
Then she bought a bit o’ butter
Better than the bitter butter,
Made her bitter batter better.
So ’twas better Betty Botta
Bought a bit o’ better butter.

Ross wished he could watch Rhys switch his swish washed Irish wristwatch for a swisher washed Swiss wristwatch.

That thug threw three free throws.

If you're keen on cunning stunts with stunning kites, acquire a stunning cunning stunt kite.

11 was a racehorse,
22 was 12,
1111 race,
22112.

It's not the cough that carried him off,
But the coffin they carried him off in.

Coffin  

The big black bug bit the big black bear,
but the big black bear bit the big black bug back.

Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

That bloke's bike's back brake-block broke.

We were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

Philly feeds on freshly fried fresh flesh

What noise annoys an oyster?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

A rough, dough-faced, but thoughtful ploughman walked through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing.

Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

Rain  

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

When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor the doctor is doctoring wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

If two witches wanted to watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

Mr. See had a saw and Mr Soar had a seesaw.
See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.

I'd like a proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.

The bottle of perfume that Willy sent
was highly displeasing to Millicent.
Her thanks were so cold
that they quarreled, I'm told
o'er that silly scent Willy sent Millicent.

Bottle of Perfume  

Should soldiers need shoulder surgery, soldiers should surely have shoulder surgery.

Doug Dodd's dad's dog's dead.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sick sheep.

When I went to Warsaw, I saw a saw that could outsaw any saw that I ever saw. Now, if you go to Warsaw and see a saw that could outsaw the saw I saw, I'd like to see your saw saw.

And to finish off, some in French, German and Latin.

Si six scies scient six cigares, six cent six scies scient six cent six cigares.

Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.

Kluge kleine Katzen kratzen keine Krokodile.

Caesar adsum iam forte,

Brutus aderat.

Caesar sic in omnibus,

Brutus inisat.

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Image Acknowledgements
Saucepans: Picryl         Sea shells: The Shell Factory: Hawaii's Seashell and Marine Shop         Woodchuck: Flickr

Coffin: Wikimedia Commons         Rain: Wikimedia Commons         Perfume: Freerange Stock