Learn Some Tongue-Twisters - if you can

A tongue-twister is a sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Even native English speakers find the tongue-twisters on this page difficult to say quickly. Try them yourself. Try to say them as fast as possible, but correctly!

• A proper copper coffee pot.

• Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.

• Long legged ladies last longer.

• Mixed biscuits, mixed biscuits.

• A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer!

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
  Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
  If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
  Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

• Pink lorry, yellow lorry.

  

• Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.

• She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.

• The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep is sick.
  

                (Sometimes described as the hardest

                         tongue-twister in the English language)

• Swan swam over the pond,
  Swim swan swim!
  Swan swam back again—
  Well swum swan!

• Three grey geese in green fields grazing.

• We surely shall see the sun shine soon.