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Discussion Groups / British English / August 2005Tongue twisters
What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%? Pawe³ > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker > knows for 100%? Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red leather, yellow leather. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? She sells sea shells by the sea shore. > > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker > > knows for 100%? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > 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? > > She sells sea shells by the sea shore. ... The shells that she sells are sea shells, I'm sure. The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick. Imagine an imaginary manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie. Cheers Tony  SignatureTony Mountifield Work: tony@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org At 13:48:57 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Tony Mountifield <tony@softins.clara.co.uk> wrote in <ddac89$9vb$1@softins.clara.co.uk>: >> > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker >> > knows for 100%? [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >Imagine an imaginary manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie. Still the sinking steamer sank. Peggy Babcock. SignatureMolly Mockford They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin (My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) Thirty-six sticky thick thistle sticks > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker > knows for 100%? Not so much a tongue- twister as a way of saying 'naughty' words and getting away with it: I ran a bug Around a tub I'll have his blood, He knows I will. And of course: Piter Peper pecked a pick of peckled pippers, A pick of peckled pippers Piter Peper pecked. If Piter Peper pecked a pick of peckled pippers, Where's the pick of peckled pippers Piter Peper pecked? Just as hard as getting it right! This one was the basis of a family story, involving the notorious drunkenness of my great-grandfather: The Leith police dismisseth us. Paul Burke Paul Burke wrote... >> What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native >> speaker knows for 100%? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > And of course: I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son. I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes... http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm > Paul Burke wrote... > > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm The way I heard it was: I'm not a fig plucker, I'm an fig plucker's son And I'll pluck figs till the fig plucker comes. SignatureBest, Erick Andrews delete bogus to reply At 21:24:12 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> wrote in <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-Dw5jGiXxznBB@HAL9000>: >> I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son. >> I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >I'm not a fig plucker, I'm an fig plucker's son >And I'll pluck figs till the fig plucker comes. But what's a plig? SignatureMolly Mockford They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin (My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) > At 21:24:12 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> > wrote in <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-Dw5jGiXxznBB@HAL9000>: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > But what's a plig? Maybe a bastard Spoonerplism? SignatureBest, Erick Andrews delete bogus to reply > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker > knows for 100%? > > Pawe³ Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat.... > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker > knows for 100%? > > Pawe³ May not so much a toungue twister, but surely a mind twister: A tooter who taught on the flute Tried to tutor two tooters to toot Said the two to the tutor Is it harder to toot or To tutor two tutors to toot? SignatureBest, Erick Andrews delete bogus to reply > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker > knows for 100%? This is one I've always particularly liked : I am not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son but I'll be plucking pheasants When the pheasant plucker's gone. You'll find it along with hundreds of other tongue twisters at: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm Regards, Einde O'Callaghan > > What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker > > knows for 100%? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but I'll be plucking pheasants > When the pheasant plucker's gone. So, as Ms Mockford might ask, elsewhere, would that be a "phucking pleasant"? Maybe a "phlucking peasant"? <g> > You'll find it along with hundreds of other tongue twisters at: > http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm Funny site. Perhaps not Spoonerisms. I always liked him saying (in truth, I've read), at a university toast: "Let us glaze our a.ses to our queer dean". Onomatapoetic, I guess. > Regards, Einde O'Callaghan SignatureBest, Erick Andrews delete bogus to reply |
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