ENGLISH GRAMMAR: TONGUE-TWISTERS

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A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results that are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister


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Read the following rapidly but clearly:

  1. The Leith police dismisseth us.
  2. His beard descending swept his aged breast.
  3. A wight well versed in waggish ways.
  4. Whither went the witch? Which Witch?
  5. Five wives weave withes.
  6. James was jesting when he adjured Jennie to jump over the juniper hedge.


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  1. She sells sea-shells in a salt-fish shop.
  2. Rory Rumpus rode a raw-boned racer.
  3. Hark how the horse's hoofs hammer on the hard high road.
  4. Last year I could not hear with either ear.
  5. Is that the Lor Mayor's mare.


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  1. She is a thistle sifter and she has a sieve of sifted thistles, and a sieve of unsifted thistles, because she is a thistle sifter.
  2. Should such a shapely sash such shabby stitches show?
  3. He is literally literary.
  4. And ere her ear had heard her heart had heard.
  5. She sees a shot-silk sash-shop, full of silk sashes, where the sun shines on the shop signs.
  6. I snuff shop snuff, do you snuff shop snuff?


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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister
Ebh Joubert - Good writing in English

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Terimakasih ilmunya @frieda

Terimakasih atas balasan anda. Sangat menghargai dukungan anda!

Good post. Upvote and resteem @frieda

Thank you very much!

Trust me, nobody has any idea of the challenges from narration.

The next book you read, read aloud. Good luck! :)

It is a challenge, I will try to read aloud. Thank you for your reply.

Thank you for selecting my post.