SELECTED TONGUE TWISTERS 1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 2. A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup. 3. Tommy Tucker tried to tie Tammy's Turtles tie. 4. The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel. 5. A tree toad loved a she-toad who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad, but a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win the three-toed she-toad's heart, for the two-toed tree toad loved the ground that the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain, he couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower with her three-toed power the she-toad vetoed him. 6. Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood. 7. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood. 8. The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back! 9. Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter-- that would make my batter better." So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter. Betty bought some bitter butter and it made her batter bitter, so Betty bought some better butter to make her bitter batter better. 10. Ed had edited it. 11. Three gray geese in the green grass grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grass. 12. Green glass globes glow greenly. 13. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells. 14. We surely shall see the sun shine soon. 15. Say this sharply, say this sweetly, Say this shortly, say this softly. Say this sixteen times in succession. 16. Swan swam over the sea, Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again Well swum, swan! 17. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits. 18. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards 19. Strange strategic statistics. 20. Chop shops stock chops. 21. Thin sticks, thick bricks 22. Four furious friends fought for the phone. 23. Three free throws. He threw three free throws. 24. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thoght I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much. 25. Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side. 26. Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday. 27. Nothing is worth thousands of deaths. 28. Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month. 29. Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze. 30. 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 whether we like it or not. 31. Red leather, yellow leather, ... 32. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery. 33. A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule. 34. Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall 35. Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry. 36. Wow, race winners really want red wine right away! 37. You know New York. You need New York. You know you need unique New York. 38. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch? 39. Which witch wished which wicked wish? 40. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish. 41. I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am. 42. One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too. 43. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full!