What's a tongue twister? It's a phrase, sentence, or poem that is very difficult to say, and almost impossible to say quickly, without making mistakes as your tongue trips all over itself.
We've collected some of the best ones for you.

JUST A FEW WORDS
  • Peggy Babcock
  • Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop
  • Three free throws
  • Knapsack straps
  • Cheap ship trip
  • Moose noshing much mush
  • Black bug's blood
  • Flash message!
  • Thieves seize skis
  • Freshly fried fresh fish flesh
  • Good blood, bad blood
  • Please pay promptly
  • Freshly-fried flying fish
  • Irish wristwatch
  • Selfish shellfish





"My tongue ith all twithted up!"
FULL SENTENCES
  • A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
  • A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
  • The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
  • Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.
  • Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
  • We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
  • Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
  • Which witch wished which wicked wish?
  • If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
  • Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
  • Brad's big black bath brush broke.
  • She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter.
  • Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.

RHYMES AND POEMS

  • 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.

  • On mules we find two legs behind
    and two we find before.
    We stand behind before we find
    what those behind be for.

  • There was a young fisher named Fischer
    Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
    The fish with a grin,
    Pulled the fisherman in;
    Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.


  • 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.

  • Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet,
    All she does is sits and shifts,
    All she does is sits and shifts.

  • One-One was a racehorse.
    Two-Two was one, too.
    When One-One won one race,
    Two-Two won one, too.



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