mscallisto
Technical User
The sixth sheiks sixth sheeps' sick
as probably is my spelling and punctuation!
More difficult twisters welcome
as probably is my spelling and punctuation!
More difficult twisters welcome
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Tough tongue twister 5
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This one's actually easier to say than it is to understand when heard (try getting someome to repeat it back to you), but I guess it still counts as a tongue twister, unless someone knows better:
"A noise annoys an oyster, a noisey noise annoys an oyster most."
"Your rock is eroding wrong." -Dogbert
"A noise annoys an oyster, a noisey noise annoys an oyster most."
"Your rock is eroding wrong." -Dogbert
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mscallisto
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Ohhhhh Glenn that's a real nice one!
sam
sam
May I propose a slight modification to sha76's oyster twister:
Any noise annoys an oyster, and a noisy noise annoys an oyster most!
Just "any" and "and" are different.
By the way, I love delivering these to people at work and making them both laugh and think I'm even weirder than they had previously ever conceived.
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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
Any noise annoys an oyster, and a noisy noise annoys an oyster most!
Just "any" and "and" are different.
By the way, I love delivering these to people at work and making them both laugh and think I'm even weirder than they had previously ever conceived.
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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
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AnotherHiggins
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Changing "A" to "Any" and adding the "And" makes it easier to understand what is being said.
What's great about it, the way sha76 posted it, is that it sounds like:
uh noise uh noise uh noise ster, uh noise e noise uh noise uh noise ster most.
Like Sha said, it isn't really a tounge twister, but it's hard to make out what's being said when hearing it spoken quikly.
John
Every generalization is false, including this one.
Good points. I was thinking more along the lines of adding more phonemes with the component sounds of a and n and y.
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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
craigsboyd
IS-IT--Management
The one tossed around when I was a kid was:
"black bug's blood" <- Repeat 3 times fast
It's similar in nature to the "Peggy Babcock" and "Good Blood Bad Blood". Speaking of which... Are they all known as "Tongue Twisters" or are there different types. So far I see that most fit into one of two challenge categories:
#1 Try to get to the end of the sentence before you bumble (or would that be mumble?).
#2 Repeat the phrase a specified number of times before you stumple
Looking at them from a phonetic & structural point of view there are other similarities to note:
#1 rhyming
#2 cadence/syllable length
#3 words sharing the same first/few letter(s)
#4 story telling/correct sentence structure
#5 just throw some words together as long as it's hard to say
There are more I'm sure. I'm just wondering whether there are any rules governing creating a tongue twister or if there are any defined categories and such with which to label certain types of tongue twisters.
Also, on a somewhat unrelated front, would knowing a non-English dialect make certain English tongue twisters easier. I mean I couldn't say "Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock" succinctly if my life depended on it, but perhaps this is a piece of cake if you speak Tagalog. I'd be interested to know if any of the multilingual members find this to be true.
"black bug's blood" <- Repeat 3 times fast
It's similar in nature to the "Peggy Babcock" and "Good Blood Bad Blood". Speaking of which... Are they all known as "Tongue Twisters" or are there different types. So far I see that most fit into one of two challenge categories:
#1 Try to get to the end of the sentence before you bumble (or would that be mumble?).
#2 Repeat the phrase a specified number of times before you stumple
Looking at them from a phonetic & structural point of view there are other similarities to note:
#1 rhyming
#2 cadence/syllable length
#3 words sharing the same first/few letter(s)
#4 story telling/correct sentence structure
#5 just throw some words together as long as it's hard to say
There are more I'm sure. I'm just wondering whether there are any rules governing creating a tongue twister or if there are any defined categories and such with which to label certain types of tongue twisters.
Also, on a somewhat unrelated front, would knowing a non-English dialect make certain English tongue twisters easier. I mean I couldn't say "Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock" succinctly if my life depended on it, but perhaps this is a piece of cake if you speak Tagalog. I'd be interested to know if any of the multilingual members find this to be true.
I'm sure one's language has something to do with what is hard to say. I can say "sixth" quite easily, but my Brazilian fiancée thinks it's quite tough! Say it out loud and you'll understand what I mean.
Craig, we've kind of crossed over from wordplay into language study. Perhaps you should start a new thread in the Making An Impression forum with the contents of your message. You can refer people back to this thread for sharing new twung tisters!
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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
Craig, we've kind of crossed over from wordplay into language study. Perhaps you should start a new thread in the Making An Impression forum with the contents of your message. You can refer people back to this thread for sharing new twung tisters!
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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
AnotherHiggins
Technical User
How 'bout this one:
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
I was flipping through the channels last night and came upon Andy Griffith saying this. (Apparently they had been talking about tongue twisters.)
John
Oh pointy bird,
Oh pointy pointy,
Anoint my head,
Anointy nointy.
Steve Martin in The Man With 2 Brains and L.A. Story
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Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
I was flipping through the channels last night and came upon Andy Griffith saying this. (Apparently they had been talking about tongue twisters.)
John
Oh pointy bird,
Oh pointy pointy,
Anoint my head,
Anointy nointy.
Steve Martin in The Man With 2 Brains and L.A. Story
To get the best answers fast, please read faq181-2886
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SkipVought
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John,
I often heard it
rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers.
How 'bout
pacific specific photosynthesis
Skip,
![[glasses]](/data/assets/smilies/glasses.gif "[glasses] [glasses]")
[red]Be advised:[/red] When transmitting sheet music...
If it ain't baroque, don't fax it!![[tongue]](/data/assets/smilies/tongue.gif "[tongue] [tongue]")
I often heard it
rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers.
How 'bout
pacific specific photosynthesis
Skip,
[red]Be advised:[/red] When transmitting sheet music...If it ain't baroque, don't fax it!
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mscallisto
Technical User
Those Baby Buggy Bumpers
are nasty!
are nasty!
SkipVought
Programmer
ssssssssssssssmmmmmmmmm[red]MOKIN'!!![/red]
Skip,
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SkipVought
Programmer
I jes' luuuuuuv PUNS!
Thanx!
Skip,
[red]Be advised:[/red] It's been reported that a wee psychic is roaming the countryside.Small Medium @ Large!
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mscallisto
Technical User
I remembered two more... the first is really tough!
The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
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The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
Dyslexic statistics
AnotherHiggins
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ceaseth" is a tongue twister all by itself!
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Hi, I've been enjoying this forum, quietly. I can't believe we've not had:
I'm not a pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's son,
And I'm only plucking pheasants
Till the pheasant plucker comes.
Andy.
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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.
Andy.
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Here a a few that I recall
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon a slitted sheet I sit.
A big blue bucket of black bug's blood.
Six twin-screwed cruisers
A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk said the stump stunk and the stump said the skunk stunk.
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon a slitted sheet I sit.
A big blue bucket of black bug's blood.
Six twin-screwed cruisers
A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk said the stump stunk and the stump said the skunk stunk.
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