A tongue twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Additionally...
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Barbara's Rhubarb Bar (category Tongue twisters)
Rhabarberbar) is a German and Dutch tongue twister that gave rise to a popular novelty song. The tongue twister is based on repetition of the sound "bar"...
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Oberammergau (section Tongue-twister)
that of neighbouring Unterammergau) appears in a well-known German tongue-twister, often sung as a round: German: Heut' kommt der Hans zu mir, / freut...
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? (category Tongue twisters)
phrased with "could" rather than "would") is an American English-language tongue-twister. The woodchuck, a word originating from Algonquian "wejack", is a kind...
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Groundhog (redirect from Woodchuck tongue twister poem)
animal, wuchak. The similarity between the words has led to the popular tongue-twister: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood...
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Peter Piper (category Tongue twisters)
Piper" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19745. The traditional version...
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Betty Botter (category Tongue twisters)
Recitation of the Betty Botter tongue twister Problems playing this file? See media help. Betty Botter is a tongue twister written by American author Carolyn...
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Studio C (section Tongue-twisters)
perform a very long tongue-twister. If any of the cast make a mistake, the sketch is immediately restarted. Each tongue-twister has a letter that they...
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Saturday Mash-Up! (section Tongue Twister)
Saturday Mash-Up! is a live British Saturday morning children's magazine entertainment programme on CBBC and BBC Two, first broadcast on 30 September 2017...
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Theophilus Thistle (category Tongue twisters)
Theophilus Thistle is the title of a famous tongue-twister, of which there are multiple versions. One version reads as: Theophilus Thistle, the thistle...
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Happy Tree Friends (redirect from Tongue Twister Trouble)
most graphic and sadistic ways possible. His deaths usually involve his tongue, head, limbs, and organs. He is voiced by Liz Stuart. Pop and Cub – Two...
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Chrząszcz (category Tongue twisters)
Chrząszcz (beetle, chafer) by Jan Brzechwa is a tongue-twister poem famous for being considered one of the hardest-to-pronounce texts in Polish literature...
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Moses supposes his toeses are roses (category Tongue twisters)
toeses are roses" is a piece of English-language nonsense verse and a tongue-twister, whimsically describing the prophet Moses mistakenly conjecturing his...
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Strč prst skrz krk (category Tongue twisters)
Strč prst skrz krk (pronounced [str̩tʃ pr̩st skr̩s kr̩k] ) is a tongue twister in Czech and Slovak meaning 'stick a finger through the neck'. The sentence...
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well-known tongue-twister in Standard Thai is: ไหมใหม่ไหม้มั้ย. IPA: /mǎi̯ mài̯ mâi̯ mái̯/ Translation: 'Does new silk burn?' A Vietnamese tongue twister: Bấy...
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The Twister (originally "Tangle Twister") is an ice cream lollipop on a stick, launched in 1982 and made by Unilever's Heartbrand. It is pineapple ice...
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Vowel (section Tongue root position)
syllable nucleus and carry rising or falling tone; examples include the tongue-twister na vrh brda vrba mrda and geographic names such as Krk. In Czech and...
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Fox in Socks (category Tongue twisters)
entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow humanoid) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end. The book begins...
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or sarcastic humour. A tongue twister is a phrase very difficult to pronounce. Aside from being a medical condition, "tongue-tied" means being unable...
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top hat, and playing on a fiddle. The monuments allude to the Polish tongue twister poem Chrząszcz by Jan Brzechwa, which the town is widely associated...
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lyrics to the 1908 song which, McCartney claimed, became the popular tongue twister, "She Sells Seashells": She sells seashells on the seashore The shells...
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bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better..." (from the tongue-twister rhyme Betty Botter by Carolyn Wells) "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled...
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Genoese dialect (section Tongue twisters)
Genoese, locally called zeneise or zeneize (Ligurian: [zeˈnejze]), is the prestige dialect of Ligurian, spoken in and around the Italian city of Genoa...
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shown on the channel. Elektra released the follow-up studio albums Tongue Twister in 1981 and Boomerang in 1982. The label also released a limited edition...
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Announcer's test (category Tongue twisters)
television and stage for many years, and it has become a favorite tongue-twister (and memory challenge) for his fans around the world. Professional announcers...
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Dictionary. K’ulb’il Yol Twitz Paxil / The Academy of Mayan Languages, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Academia de las Lenguas Mayas[permanent...
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ones". There is a shorter more well-known 32-long word, which is a tongue twister, too — Elektrikləşdirilmişlərdənsinizmi? meaning "Are you from the ones...
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many fictitious fables. The word itself is a tongue-twister and is also used in longer tongue-twisters that include nonsense words similar to Parangaricutirimícuaro...
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The feat occurred in 1969 in Northern Ireland. 1989 Most difficult tongue twister The 1974 edition featured "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"...
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an untrained speaker, a word or phrase can often be something of a tongue-twister or a shibboleth. Today, the books (and subsequent films) are so well...
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