She Sells Seashells

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    Are you any good at tongue twisters? Do you have a favorite?

    I really love tongue twisters and have two favorites. My favorite in difficulty level, the hardest one I've ever been able to find:

    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!
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    My favorite one to say is this one because it's fast and easy and sounds really cool:

    A twister a-twisting would twist him a twist,
    To twist him a twist he three strands doth entwist;
    But in twisting his twist, if a strand doth untwist,
    The strand that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.
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    My favourite has to be: Чичковите червенотиквеничковчета.

    Wouldn't make any sense in English, so I wrote it in Bulgarian. And yes, the long word is written correctly.
     
    Gah, I hate tongue twisters! They make me so mad, I can't stop saying them until I get them right. My favorite is: "Irish Wristwatch". Now say that 3 times fast. I don't even know what makes it so difficult!
     
    Tongue twisters, eh?

    Whether Castform the Weather Pokemon can weather the weather is dependent on whether the weather that it's weathering is the proper weather for it to weather. Whether the opponent can weather the weather is also subject to whether the weather that it's weathering is the right weather to weather. Whether Castform can weather the opponent is once again dictated by the weather and whether that weather is the favorable weather for weathering. But most importantly, you should know whether there will be weather to weather rather than what weather they will be weathering and whether they can weather that weather.

    - Castform's BW analysis​
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    Sorry, I had to.
     
    acatfrommars said:
    Gah, I hate tongue twisters! They make me so mad, I can't stop saying them until I get them right. My favorite is: "Irish Wristwatch". Now say that 3 times fast. I don't even know what makes it so difficult!
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    "I wish wishwash".
    That's the end result. :x

    I don't really have a favourite since I don't remember the ones my friends give me, but I usually have great trouble with them. My speaking naturally sucks, so tongue twisters butcher that even more.
     
    I suck at tongue twisters unless they're set to a rhythm. In choir, we do chromatic scales doing a pretty simply tongue twister: "She sells seashells by the shore, she can't sell them anymore." The beginning part usually gets people. I've heard numerous variations such as: "See shells sheshells", "She shells sheshells", "She sells shesells", "See sells sealsells", etc.

    Generally, I struggle immensely with anything using soft "th" sounds because I have a speech impediment that causes all my soft "th" sounds to turn into "f" sounds, which makes those kind of tongue twisters impossible.
     
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    I am very bad at tongue twisters and never get past the second part of them.
     
    Even though English is my second language, and I have a generally good grasp on it, I've never been particularly good at tongue twisters ;; And I don't know that many besides the basic ones.
     
    You know what, I have yet to answered this topic.

    Anyway, I haven't encountered other tongue twisters aside from the seashells and Peter Piper, so I can't place my opinion about this.

    However, in Indonesian, there's this sentence to know whether you can mention the letter "R" in a way that it vibrates or pronounce it as "L" instead.

    "Ular melingkar di atas pagar."

    Obviously, since English has "R" pronounced quite softly, and my first language is English, let's just say that I fail miserably in vibrating the letter "R". At least I can mention it as "R" instead of "L".

    Then there's this Chinese tongue twister that I know as well. Problem is, they all sound quite similar, only difference is the intonations (people who have learned Chinese will know what I mean) that it is so hard to go through it without failing. Maybe I'll grab the text in the form of a picture someday.
     
    Ugh, I'm terrible at tongue twisters. I stumble over my words enough as it is :I

    There's this one German tongue twister I like though. It's about snakes (:
    "Es klapperten die Klapperschlangen, bis ihre Klappern schlapper klangen." (The rattlesnakes rattled until their rattles sounded run-down). I can't say it fast though.
     
    Ugh, I'm terrible at tongue twisters. I stumble over my words enough as it is :I

    There's this one German tongue twister I like though. It's about snakes (:
    "Es klapperten die Klapperschlangen, bis ihre Klappern schlapper klangen." (The rattlesnakes rattled until their rattles sounded run-down). I can't say it fast though.
     
    I read the title of this thread wrong haha.

    The one I hate is ''The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.''

    & the pepper one is a nightmare:

    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?
     
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