The Steve Laube Agency

Last Sunday was National Tongue Twister Day. Your assignment, should you decide to accept it, is to have your family do a Tongue Twister Challenge.

Here are a few to try; some are better for younger kids! (To win you have to say it three times really fast without error.)

Red leather yellow leather.

Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

She sells seashells by the seashore.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. So Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
“Is it tougher to toot
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?”

Betty Boughter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make it better than the bitter butter
So she bought a bit of better butter
And put it in her batter
And her batter was not bitter
So t’was Betty Boughter bought a bit of better butter and put it in her
batter and her batter was not bitter.

Then try to sing along with this one (lyrics below):

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
(by W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado)