Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twisters!

Below, you will find some of the most popular English tongue twisters. Say them as quickly as you can. If you can master them, you will be a much more confident speaker.

1. 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?
2. Betty Botter bought some butter
   But she said 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 batter better
   So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
3. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck* if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
   He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood
   As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood
4. She sells seashells by the seashore
5. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
6. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
7. I've got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late
8. You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York
9. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen
10. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
11. I wish I thought to thank you earlier, but I think I forgot.
12. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
13. Near her dear ear, a deer’s ear was hearing her nearing eerily nearer.
14. A big black bear sat under a tall tilted tree.
15. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks
16. He threw three free throws
17. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
18. So, this is the sushi chef
19. Four fine fresh fish for you
20. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses
21. Red fish, blue fish, one fish, two fish
22. Six sticky skeletons (x3)
23. Which witch is which? (x3)
24. Red lorry, yellow lorry (x3)
25. Thin sticks, thick bricks (x3)
26. Stupid superstition (x3)
27. Eleven benevolent elephants (x3)
28. Two tried and true tridents (x3)
29. Truly rural (x3)
30. Good blood, bad blood (x3)
31. Pre-shrunk silk shirts (x3)
32. We surely shall see the sun shine soon
33. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
34. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better

*A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints (9.09 (UK) or 8.81 (US) liters).

*Chuck means to throw.