Tongue twisters have been entertaining children ever since Peter Piper first picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A fun way to improve pronunciation and fluency, learn new words and have a good old giggle in the process, try these old favourites and clever new phrases to pass the time during a car journey or rainy afternoon.
Start with the classics…
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?
One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.
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.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
Then try saying these phrases three times in a row…
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
A shapeless sash sags slowly
Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone
Red lorry, yellow lorry
Comical economists
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers!
Sasha sews slightly slashed sheets shut
Still driving? This’ll get you the rest of the way. Simply change the names to make up a new rhyme…
Katie, Katie, bo-batie,
Banana-fana fo-fatie
Fee-fi-mo-matie
Katie!
