Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Honest

Hi!
    • 11,676
    Posts
    16
    Years
    Is your tongue twisted yet?

    For those who don't know what tongue twisters are phrases that are designed to be difficult to say properly. Examples of some famous ones are:

    • She sells seashells by the seashore.
    • How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
    • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

    (Note: the above are actually only parts of tongue twisters)

    Anyway, getting on with the topic, how good are you at tongue twisters? Are you able to articulate them with ease, or are you like me and get all wrapped up. Literally. Do you have any particular favorites? Feel free to share any really good ones that you know. And good luck getting any twisted tongues untwisted.


    Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any messed up tongues. :I
     
    I am so good at tongue twisters. My personal favorite challenge-wise:

    Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
    in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
    thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

    Now.....if Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
    in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
    thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
    see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
    thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

    Success to the successful thistle-sifter!

    And my favorite one to say:

    When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist, For the twisting a twist, he three twines will entwist; But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.
     
    They just get on my nerves, but I'm not sure why. I:
     
    She sells sheshells by the seashore
    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

    ...are how I say those. Aaaaand those are literally the only ones I know so given I can say two of them properly, I'd say 2/3 is great!!
     
    I always trip up when I try doing a tongue twister.
     
    No, I can not do tongue twisters. Since I don't have time to do such things. xD

    Though it will be fun if I can.
     
    Though I'm fairly good at tong twisters, my often "twist" my tongue in normal conversations. XD

    All the tongue twisters I know are in Dutch, but I think there are a few who translate well in English:

    -I mix the whiskey with the whiskey mixer. (try to say this five times in a row as fast as you can XD)

    ...Man the ones you posted are long, those aren't fun to me...XD
     
    I have difficulty pronouncing anything, and my tongue twists too easily. Too easily that I can't even describe it further.
     
    I like saying tongue twisters, but I don't say them too well. I sometimes can't wrap my tongue around even simple words properly, let alone tongue twisters. The most I can correctly articulate those twisty sentences is about two times in succession at the most, but then my tongue decides to...twist...things up a little lol. I've heard that tongue twisters are a great way to improve one's pronunciation, so go start practising 'em tongue twisters y'all!
     
    Last edited:
    I suck at them because I can barely speak normally without getting tongue-tied sometimes. That being said, I was never too big on them in the first place. By the time I was old enough to really understand the purpose behind them, I reasoned that it was pretty much playing Five Finger Filet with words.
     
    I'd say I'm average at them? I can get good at them if I practice.

    ...why do I know this? Why have I practiced tongue twisters? lol
     
    Mumbling these tongue twisters makes me feel really weird, let me tell you. :p

    If I'm reading them aloud I think I do pretty okay. My tongue tends to get twisted on things I'm not looking at when I talk. My normal speech is like awful. But if I focus on the words I can say them pretty well! I think.
     
    I don't have any problems with pronunciation - I can pronounce most words that others can't.

    Thus, it'll be very unlikely that I'll have any problems with tongue twisters.
     
    I'd say I'm above average at trying to do any tounge-twisters, but I always cheat a little and don't go quite as fast as I know I can. All of the ones in the first post, though, I can do pretty fast with ease.

    One of my favorites that I've always felt was easy but others I know seem to have a hard time saying is: I thought a thought, but the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought as much as I'd thought.
     
    I'm not very good at them because I've never tried to improve. I feel like it's something that would be really easy to become adept at so long as you repeat it over and over again, gradually increasing your speed and accuracy. It's just not something I care about in the slightest so I don't think I've ever said any tongue-twisting phrases outside of conversations in which they come up around friends. And I think the last time I actually said any of these was a decade ago. Just confirmed it alone in my room as I type this and I still can't say any of them first try. XD;
     
    In elementary school I was receiving some uh... speech therapy I guess. Mild pronunciation issues. Much better today. But when I'm a little nervous, I might get tongue tied.

    And my "th"s still come out as "f"s, unfortunately.
     
    I can say most tongue twisters fairly easily, over time I've learnt some tricks to saying them and in general practised so nowadays I can say most tongue twisters with ease. I guess if I also had a favourite one it would definitely be:

    One One was a racehorse,
    Two Two was one too,
    One One won a race,
    Two Two won one too.

    But yeah in general I can do most tongue twisters. :]
     
    I'm pretty good at them if I do say so myslelf.

    Some of the ones I can do:
    How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
    She sells sea shells by the sea shore
    The slippery soap slid and slipped in the slippery sink
     
    I'm alright at tongue twisters. Trying some of the ones above I had moderate difficulty saying them all. Sometime I can't say certain words after repeating a sound so many times or some words just sound odd after repeating them many times.
     
    You must log in or register to reply here.
    Back
    Top