‘SHE sells seashells along the seashore’ is just one of the many verse that will be repeated the world over on International Tongue Twister Day, this Sunday, 9 November.
Celebrated the second Sunday of November, International Tongue Twister Day is a frivolous day of fun that sees people attempt to get through some of the toughest tongue twisters. And according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most difficult English tongue twister is ‘The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.’ Can you say that 10 times fast without stumbling?
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Below are some suggestions of well-known tongue twisters for you to try:
* How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
* I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
* Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
* 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 beside the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
* The sixth sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick
