Tongue-twister
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A tongue-twister is a sentence that is hard to say. They often use alliteration and homophones.
[change] Examples
- How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
- How much straw could a strawberry bury if a strawberry could bury straw.
- She slit a sheet, a sheet she slit.
- Subterranean seismograph stuck in the stratosphere.
- She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.
- The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, which pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?