Tongue - Twisters

[ai]

‘Good-bye’, said the fly, as I passed by.

“I’m going to try to fly to the sky”.

“You fly to the sky? You silly old fly!

The sky is too high

For a fly”, said I.

[ei]

Rain, rain, go to Spain,

Don’t come here again.

Rain, rain, go away,

Come again another day.

Little Jane wants to play.

[l]

Tell me, tell me, dear little Polly,

What have you called your beautiful dolly?

 My beautiful dolly is

Caroline Isabel Millicent Molly.

[p]

Peter picked a peck of pickled pepper.

A peck of pickled pepper Peter piper picked.

If Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.  

Where is the peck of pickled pepper Peter piper picked?

[θ]

A thatcher of thatchwood

Went to thatch it a-thatching.

Did the thatcher  of thatchwood.

Go to thatch it a-thatching?

If a thatcher of thatchwood

Went to thatch it a- thatching,

Where is the thatching

The thatcher of thatchwood has thatched?

[n]

As I was going alone, alone, alone

Singing a comical song, song, song

The lane that I went was so long, long, long.

And so I went singing along.

[d]

David tried to ride the donkey

Up and down the ladder.

Which of us, the donkey said,

Is mad, and which is the madder?

[b]

Betty Botter bought some butter.

“But”, she said, “this butter’s bitter.

But a bit of better butter

Will make my butter better”.

So she bought some better butter

And it made her butter better.

[w]

How much wood would a wood-chuck

chuck

If a wood-chuck would chuck wood?

We wonder whether the weather

Will weather the weather,

Or whether the weather

The weather will kill.

[r]

Robert Roley rolled a round roll round

A round roll Robert Roley rolled round.

Where is the round roll

Robert Roley rolled round?

[s]

Simple Simon met a pieman

Going to the fair.

Says simple Simon to the pieman

“Lets me taste your ware.”

Says the pieman to simple Simon,

“Show me first your penny”

Says simple Simon to the pieman,

“Indeed, I have not any”.

See simple Sam upon the ice,

So slippery and smooth and nice.

He slips and slides and slides and slips,

But Simple Sammy seldom trips,

“the ice is smooth as smooth can be,

That’s why I do not trip”, says he.

There was a young student of Bresser

Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser

At the end of the fall

He knew nothing at all

And now he’s a college professor.

[Ә]

The more we study, the more we know,

The more we know, the more we forget.

The more we forget, the less we know.

The less we know. The less we forget.

The less we forget, the more we know.

Why study?