Tongue Twisters

A Collection of Tongue Twisters from my Tongue Twisting Collection.

Some Tongue Twisters I ritualistically inordinately, extravagantly appreciate -

1. I need not your needles, they're needless to me;

For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;

But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,

I then should have need of your needles indeed.

2. 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.

3. You've no need to light a night-light

On a light night like tonight,

For a night-light's light's a slight light,

And tonight's a night that's light.

When a night's light, like tonight's light,

It is really not quite right

To light night-lights with their slight lights

On a light night like tonight.

4. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot

To talk ere the tot could totter,

Ought the Hottenton tot

Be taught to say aught, or naught,

Or what ought to be taught her?

If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot

Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,

Ought the tutor get hot

If the Hottentot tot

Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?

5. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu

choose the shoes he chews?

6. Of all the felt I ever felt,

I never felt a piece of felt

which felt as fine as that felt felt,

when first I felt that felt hat's felt.

7. I thought a thought.

But the thought I thought wasn't the thought

I thought I thought.

8. If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor

who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the

doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor

the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

9. I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau,

he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.

10. Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,

with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,

he thrusts his fist against the posts

and still insists he sees the ghosts.

11. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager

imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

12. Once upon a barren moor

There dwelt a bear, also a boar.

The bear could not bear the boar.

The boar thought the bear a bore.

At last the bear could bear no more

Of that boar that bored him on the moor,

And so one morn he bored the boar--

That boar will bore the bear no more.

13. On mules we find two legs behind

and two we find before.

We stand behind before we find

what those behind be for.

14. Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear

when Washington's washer woman went west?

15. Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,

in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,

thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

Now.....if Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,

in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,

thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,

see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,

thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

Success to the successful thistle-sifter.

16. Pick a partner and practice passing,

for if you pass proficiently,

perhaps you'll play professionally.

17. Mr. See owned a saw.

And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.

Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw

Before Soar saw See,

Which made Soar sore.

Had Soar seen See's saw

Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,

See's saw would not have sawed

Soar's seesaw.

So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.

But it was sad to see Soar so sore

Just because See's saw sawed

Soar's seesaw!

18. Ned 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 Shott was shot,

not Nott.

However,

the shot Shott shot shot not Shott --

but Nott.

19. 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.

20. A bloke's back bike brake block broke.

21. Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.

22. I cannot bear to see a bear

Bear down upon a hare.

When bare of hair he strips the hare,

Right there I cry, "Forbear!"

23. Listen to the local yokel yodel.