Sunday, November 01, 2009

Tongue Twisters

I took a proper copper kettle to the top of the Popocatepetl.
And at the top of Popocatepetl I put my proper copper kettle.

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter
But she said, "This butter's bitter;
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better."

Bring me three baby rubber buggy bumpers;
a black baby rubber buggy bumper,
a brown baby rubber buggy bumper,
and a blue baby rubber buggy bumper.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

How many slim slimy snakes would slither silently to the sea if slim slimy snakes could slither silently?

He says that a two twice-twisted twine twisted twice twists twice as tight as a one once twisted twine twisted twice;
But I say that a two twice-twisted twine twice does not twist as tight as a one once-twisted twine twisted twice.

Esau Wood would saw wood. Oh the wood that Wood that Wood would saw!
One day, Esau Wood saw a saw saw wood as no other wood-saw Wood ever saw would saw wood.
Of all the wood-saws Wood ever saw saw wood, Wood never saw a wood-saw that would saw like the wood-saw Wood saw would.
Now Esau saws wood with that wood-saw he saw saw wood.

I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought I'd thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I'd thought had been the thought I thought I'd thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

She sells seashells by the seashore;
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.
If she sells seashells by the seashore,
Then she's a seashore seashell seller.

If a shipshape ship shop stocks six shipshape shop soiled ships,
how many shipshape shop soiled ships would six shipshape ship shops stocks.