• 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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    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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    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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  • 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! 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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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