Miscellaneous Favourite Tongue Twisters?

[MikeMorrell]

A 'Tongue Twister' is a sentence or phrase that is intended to be hard to say quickly and correctly. As children, often just spoken for fun and amusement. To laugh when friends trip up over words. A couple of well-known examples are:

"She sells seashells on the seashore"

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"

@Woodpad recently posted a wonderful Dutch tongue twister:
"De schele schipper van de schorpioen schopte zijn schoenen scheef bij het schijfschieten in de Scheveningse Schuilschansstraatschool."

I had only dim memories of this one (not to be overheard by parents/teachers!), which brought howls of laughter!

"I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s son. I’m only plucking pheasants ’til the pheasant plucker comes."


I wondered which favourite 'tongue twisters' you still remember from your own country/locality/language?

Mike

 

[Jimmymack]

Red leather yellow leather

 

[Nick Wyver]

Or even:
Red lorry yellow lorry

 

[Targa]

Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.

 

[Pete Thomas]

My favourite (but is it technically a tongue twister?)

Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
but Moses supposes erroneously.
For Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses
as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

That’s the version in Singing in the Rain, there are also earlier versions

 

[Ghr9204]

Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally
Bought his jolly golli’ a dollie made of holly!
The golli’, feeling jolly, named the holly dollie, Polly.
So Yally Bally’s jolly golli’s holly dollie Polly’s also jolly!

Also,

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.

From: Tongue Twisters Poems

 

[CliveMA]

Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally
...

From: Tongue Twisters Poems

🤯 (head explode)

 

[Targa]

The Leith police dismisseth us.

Used by the Scottish police as an 'under the influence' test.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Used by the Scottish police as an 'under the influence' test.

OT but reminds me of a story from an old alcoholic I once knew in Birmingham.

Back in the day his local bobby's test was that if you could actually get the key in the lock you were OK to drive. Sometimes he would bribe the bobby (buying him a pint) to help him open the car door and point him towards the ignition.

 

[Ghr9204]

OT but reminds me of a story from an old alcoholic I once knew in Birmingham.

Back in the day his local bobby's test was that if you could actually get the key in the lock you were OK to drive. Sometimes he would bribe the bobby (buying him a pint) to help him open the car door and point him towards the ignition.

 

[Woodpad]

Wonderfull.

My Dutch favorite is:

Achter grootmoeders hutje groeien kroten op een klutje.

 

[Ghr9204]

 

[mizmar]

If you have a mandarin (i guess) speaking colleague or mate - ask about the Shí poem. Or is it Shì?

View: https://youtu.be/9jtiw721RAg

 

[Ghr9204]

 

[Targa]

@Woodpad recently posted a wonderful Dutch tongue twister:
"De schele schipper van de schorpioen schopte zijn schoenen scheef bij het schijfschieten in de Scheveningse Schuilschansstraatschool."

This thread started because of the Dutch tongue twister and it's taken this long for my brain to wake up and remember people used to, maybe still do, refer to, usually official, unintelligible language as Double Dutch.

 

[mizmar]

Double Dutch.

Ah, yes. That reminds of an item on the Specials menu in an Amsterdam cafe...