As I was putting my daughter's books back on the shelf, I found a book of tongue twisters and decided to try some of them out. Most of them were pretty easy and a good deal of them were rather lame, but I did find a good few ones that I would share:
If one doctor doctors another, does the doctor who doctors
the doctor doctor the doctor the eway the doctor he is doctoring
doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the
doctor who doctors doctors?
A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother bittern,
and the bitter better bittern bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten by the better bitten bittern
said, "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"
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.
If you stick a stick across a stick,
or stick a cross across a stick,
or cross a stick across a stick,
or stick a cross across a cross,
or cross a cross across a stick,
or cross a cross across a cross,
or stick a crossed stick across a stick,
or stick a crossed stick across a crossed stick,
or cross a crossed stick across a cross,
or cross a crossed stick across a crossed stick,
would that be an acrostic?
and the last one:
Betty Botter bought some butter.
but she said, "The butter's bitter.
If i put it in my batter,
it will 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 put it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.
Whew. That was a lot of typing. It's just as bad typing the tongue twisters as it is typing them. Hope you have fun reading these out loud.
Hi Liz! Just reading up...this reminds me of Fox in Sox. One of the best Dr. Suesses :)
ReplyDeleteHey Cassie. Glad you liked it. Do you have a blog that you write on? If so, I could join it.
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