Tongue twister is a word or group of words difficult to articulate rapidly, usually because of a succession of similar consonantal sounds, as in Shall she sell seashells?

This page was originally created to give a good group of tongue twisters to people in speech therapy, to people who want to work on getting rid of an accent, or to people who just plain like tongue twisters. I hope you enjoy them.

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits

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,

where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.

A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells.

So if she sells shells on the seashore,

I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells.

So if she sells shells on the seashore,

I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

A Tudor who tooted a flute

tried to tutor two tooters to toot.

Said the two to their tutor,

"Is it harder to toot

or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.

Said the flea, "Let us fly!"

Said the fly, "Let us flee!"

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

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!"

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck

if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,

and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would

if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her

back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.

Gray were the geese and green was the grass.

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

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.

Swan swam over the sea, Swim, swan, swim!

Swan swam back again Well swum, swan!

Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.

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?

While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his laboratory.

Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear when Washington's washer woman went west?

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,

It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,

Or some stickler who is slicker

Will stick you of your liquor

If you fail to lock your liquor

With a lock!

Irish wristwatch.