Tongue Twisters for Voiceover Artists
"I've put together a huge collection of tongue twisters to help you with your daily voiceover warmups. Start off with the easy ones which actually aren't that easy! As you work through the easy tongue-twisters, try to identify which ones you struggle with. Each day, shake up your articulation warmup by selecting a new one. Which letter combinations get you properly tongue-twisted? Don't rush them but instead gradually build up speed, remaining clear. Try overdoing the articulation. Use these tongue twisters in combination with your stretching and breath work to get you ready for your voiceover session or voiceover audition or in combination with our voice over scripts. Enjoy!"
Guy Michaels - Director of Voiceover Kickstart Ltd.
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A big black bear sat on a big black bug
A bragging baker baked black bread
A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped
A lump of red leather, a red leather lump
A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot
A quick witted cricket critic
A real rare whale
A sailor went to sea to see what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara
A turbot's not a burbot, for a turbot's a butt, but a burbot's not
An elephant was asphyxiated in the asphalt
An inchworm inches on ivy that itches
Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April
Are our oars oak?
Argyle Gargoyle
Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
Betty's big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush
black back bat
Blue glue gun, green glue gun
Broken blue crayon
Busy buzzing bumble bees
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.
Cheap ship trip
Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheep cheddar cheese
Chill, Shake, Serve
Chip Shop Chips
Clean clams crammed in clean cans
Clowns grow glowing crowns
Cooks cook cupcakes quickly
Daddy Draws Doors
Dick kicks sticky bricks
Dimensional analysis
Double bubble gum, bubbles double
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs
Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree
Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree
Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month
Eve eating eagerly elegant Easter eggs
Flies fly but a fly flies
Four fine fresh fish for you
Four furious friends fought for the phone
Four furious friends fought for the phone
Fresh French fried fly fritters
Freshly-fried flying fish
Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins
Furnish Freddie's nursery with forty-four furry Furby Beanie Babies
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
Gig whip, gig whip, gig whip
Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins
Good blood, bad blood
gradually giving gophers gooey guts
Great gray goats
Greek grapes
Greek grapes
Green and brown blades of grass
He threw three balls
Hercules, a hardy hunter, hunted a hare in the Hampshire Hills. Hit him on the head with a hard, hard hammer and he howled horribly!
How many berries could a bare berry carry?
How may saws could a see-saw saw if a see-saw could saw saws?
I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning
I eat eel while you peel eel
I like New York, unique New York, I like unique New York.
I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!
I see a sea down by the seashore
I shot the city sheriff
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit
I was born on a pirate ship
I wish you were a fish in my dish
I would if I could! But I can't, so I won't!
I'll chew and chew until my jaws drop
If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years?
If you go for a gopher a gopher will go for a gopher hole
If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
Inchworms itching
Iranian Uranium
It dawned on Don at dawn
Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes
Labradoodle, labradoodle, labradoodle
Lady Luck dislikes losers
Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's
Loyal royal lawyer
Mallory's hourly salary
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw
Mumbling, bumbling. Bumbling, mumbling.
Mummies make money
My Friend Gladys
Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she's sad.
Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she's glad.
But the sadness of her sadness,
and the gladness of her gladness,
Are nothing like her madness when she's mad!
Nat the bat swat at Matt the gnat
Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts
Nope, an antelope can't elope with a cantelope
Nothing is worth thousands of deaths
Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock
Pirates Private Property
Please pay promptly
Professor Peter Peckinpah
Quick kiss. Quicker kiss
Ralph rakes leaves really, really lousily
Rattle your bottles in Rollocks' van
Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall
Really leery, rarely Larry
Really very weary, really very weary, really very weary
Red blood, green blood
Red lolly, yellow lolly
Richard's wretched ratchet wrench
Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins
Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins
Rolling red wagons
Roofs of mushrooms rarely mush too much
Round the rough and rugged rock the ragged rascal rudely ran
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Rudder valve reversals
Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers
Salty broccoli, salty broccoli, salty broccoli
Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks
Santa's Short Suit Shrunk
Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks
Seventy seven benevolent elephants
Shave a single shingle thins
She said she should sit
She sees cheese
She sees seas slapping shores
She sells sea shells by the seashore
Sheena leads, Sheila needs
Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section
Shredded Swiss chesse
Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop
Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand
Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas
Six slick, slim, slender saplings
Six slimy snails sailed silently
Six socks sit in a sink, soaking in soap suds
Six sticky skeletons
So, this is the sushi chef?
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
Stupid superstition
Supposed to be pistachio
Susie sits shining silver shoes
Swatch watch
Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side
The epitome of femininity
The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive
The greedy Greek geek agreed
The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
The little red lorry went down Limuru road
The myth of Miss Muffet
The queen in green screamed
The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel
There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through
There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch
Thieves seize skis
Thin sticks, thick bricks
This is a zither
This is the sixth zebra snoozing thoroughly
Three grey geese
In a green field grazing,
Grey were the geese
And green was the grazing.
Three short sword sheaths
Three thin thinkers thinking thick thoughtful thoughts
Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
Tragedy strategy
Truly rural
Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town
Two tiny timid toads trying to trot to Tarrytown
Two to two to Toulouse?
Two toads, totally tired
Two tried and true tridents
Upper roller, lower roller
Velvet Revolver
Very well, very well, very well
Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently
Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses
We won, we won, we won, we won
Which sea do you see down by the seashore?
Which witch is which?
Which witch is which?
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
Who holds Joe's nose when he blows? Joe knows.
Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear when Washington's washer-woman went west?
Will you, William?
Yelling yellow Yeti
You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!
A big blue bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
A black bloke's back brake-block broke
A box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.
A cunning young canner from Canning
Once observed to his granny,
A canner can can
a lot of things gran,
But a canner can't can a can, can he?
A flea and a fly in a flue,
were imprisoned. So what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee".
Said the flea, "Let us fly".
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule
A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest
A pessimistic pest exists amidst us
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
A shapeless sash sags slowly
A singly circularly linked list
A smart fella, a fella smart.
It takes a smart fella to say a fella smart.
A snake sneaks to seek a snack
A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym
A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"
A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
and the twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist.
now in twisting this twist,
if a twist should untwist,
would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists?
A wooden worm wouldn't be worthy of worship but would he if he wondered and worried about what he would be worthy of if he wasn't wooden?
Ah shucks, six stick shifts stuck shut!
All I want is a proper cup of coffee,
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot
But I want a cup of coffee
From a proper coffee pot.
Aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum
Bake big batches of bitter brown bread
Betty better butter Brad's bread
Betty bought a bit of butter.
But the butter Betty bought was bitter.
so Betty bought a better butter,
and it was better than the butter Betty bought before.
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
Bill had a billboard, Bill also had a board bill. The billboard bored Bill so Bill sold the billboard to pay for the board bill.
Black background, brown background
Black Rock Brain Lock
Brad's big black bath brush broke
Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons balancing them badly
Broken back brake block
Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Cedar shingles should be shaved and saved
Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant
Cheap Sheep Sheets, Cheap Sheep Sheets, Cheap Sheep Sheets.
Chester chooses chestnuts,
cheddar cheese with chewy chives.
He chews them and he chooses them.
He chooses them and he chews them
Those chestnuts, cheddar cheese
and chives in cheery, charming chunks.
Clean clams crammed in clean cans
Cook 'Cookie' Turk took Kookie Kirk a turkey cookie.
Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves
Craig Quinn's quick trip to Crabtree Creek
Crash Quiche Course
Crisp crusts crackle crunchily
Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes
Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig Doug's garden?
Does this shop sport short socks with spots?
Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.
Don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you! If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles you!
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.
Drunk drugged ducks, Drunk drugged ducks, Drunk drugged ducks
Dust is a disk's worst enemy
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs
Eddie edited it
Eleven benevolent elephants
Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively
Farrell's features fabulous food 'n' fantastic fountain fantasies for frolicking, fun-filled festive families.
Fat frogs flying past fast
Five fat friars frying flat fish
Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes
Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes
Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.
Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
Forgiveness forms a firm foundation for future fortitude
Four poor fools filled four pools full
Frank's fisher fishes on Friday for Frank's Friday fresh fried fish-fest.
Fred Threlfall's thirty-five fine threads are finer threads than Fred Threlfall's thirty-five thick threads.
Freddy is ready to roast red roaches.
Ready for Freddy's roasted red roaches?
Fresh French fried fly fritters
Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks
Frozen Floyd flicks fat fleas for a fixed flat fee
Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar
Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle
Green glass globes glow greenly
Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.
He threw three free throws
He wanted to desert his dessert in the desert!
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.
How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.
How many cats would a caddie catch if a caddie could catch cats?
How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies?
How many pounds in a groundhog's mound when a groundhog pounds hog mounds?
How many snacks could a snack stacker stack,
if a snack stacker snacked stacked snacks?
How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?
How much cash could a sasquatch stash if a sasquatch could stash cash?
How much dough would Bob Dole dole
if Bob Dole could dole dough?
Bob Dole would dole as much dough
as Bob Dole could dole,
if Bob Dole could dole dough.
How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.
I broke a brickbat and a brickbat broke me
I gratefully gazed at the gracefully grazing gazelles
I saw a saw in Warsaw. Of all the saws I ever saw I never saw a saw that could saw, like the saw I saw in Warsaw.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
I stood sadly on the silver steps of Burgess's fish sauce shop, mimicking him hiccuping, and wildly welcoming him within.
I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
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 so much.
I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice,
I'm perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
If two witches were watching two watches: which witch would watch which watch?
If you can't can any candy can,
how many candy cans can a candy canner can
if he can can candy cans ?
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
how do I understand that you understand? Understand!?
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie
In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.
Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
It's a nice night for a white rice fight
It's not the cough that carries you off,
it's the coffin they carry you off in!
Jack's nap sack strap snapped
Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead
Knife and a fork bottle and a cork
that is the way you spell New York.
Chicken in the car and the car can go,
that is the way you spell Chicago.
Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.
Lenny Lou leopard led leprechauns leaping like lemmings.
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Linda-Lou Lambert Loves Lemon Lollipop Lipgloss
Listen to the local yokel yodel
Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads
Lovely lemon liniment
Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone
Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight
Midget minute, midget minute, midget minute
Moose noshing much mush
Moses supposes his toeses are roses.
But Moses supposes erroneously.
Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be.
I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
National Sheepshire Sheep Association
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight
No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight
No nose knows like a gnome's nose knows
Of all the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
which felt as fine as that felt felt.
On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser
One Double Dozen Double Damask Dinner Napkins
Pacific Lithograph
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?
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick.
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
Plague-bearing prairie dogs
Plaid pleated pants, Plaid pleated pants, Plaid pleated pants
Plymouth sleuths thwart Luther's slithering
Preshrunk silk shirts
Preshrunk silk shirts
Purple paper people, purple paper people, purple paper people
Quick queens quack quick quacks quicker than quacking quails
Quizzical quiz, kiss me quick
Rather Ruth's writhings than Roth's wrath
Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?
Red Buick, blue Buick
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
Rory's lawn rake rarely rakes really right
Selfish shellfish
Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors
Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.
Seventy-seven benevolent elephants
Shave a single shingle thin
She is a thistle-sifter. She has a sieve of unsifted thistles and a sieve of sifted thistles and the sieve of unsifted thistles she sifts into the sieve of sifted thistles because she is a thistle-sifter.
She saw Sharif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure those were Sharif's shoes she saw?
She should shun the shining sun
She thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of her thumb
Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers
Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter,
seized his knees and sneezed.
Six sharp smart sharks
Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities
Six short slow shepherds
Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
Six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons
Six sticky sucker sticks.
Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers
Sleep sweetly sleep sweetly sleep sweetly
Slick slim slippers sliding south
Slinking, sliding, slithering slyly,
Swiftly slipping through the grasses shyly,
Silent but for swish and hiss
Is the sinuous snake's leglessness.
Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup
Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters
Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.
Strange strategic statistics
Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city
Sure the ship's shipshape, sir
Sure, sir, the ship's sure shipshape, sir
Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines
Suzie Seaword's fish-sauce shop sells unsifted thistles for thistle-sifters to sift
Sweater weather, leather weather
Tell Tom the ticket taker to take the ticket to the ticket wicket
Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn't teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.
The blue bluebird blinks
The bottle of perfume that Willy sent
was highly displeasing to Millicent.
Her thanks were so cold
that they quarreled, I'm told
o'er that silly scent Willy sent Millicent.
The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom
The cat catchers can't catch caught cats.
The cat in the hat had a big fat hat to hit the other cat with the funny fat hat
The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
The seething sea ceaseth; thus the seething sea sufficeth us
The Smothers brothers' father's mother's brothers are
the Smothers brothers' mother's father's other brothers.
The soldier's shoulder surely hurts
The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday
Theodore Thistle threw three thorny thistles.
There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two, too.
There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich
There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan
These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
They hatch fish at the state fish hatchery and sell hatched fish to the fish stick factory
Thin grippy thick slippery
Thirty-six thick silk threads
Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did, what Anybody could have done.
Three fluffy feathers fell from Phoebe's flimsy fan
Three free throws
Three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters.
If three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters,
where's the twisters the three tree turtles talked?
Three twigs twined tightly
Tie twine to three tree twigs
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith
To begin to toboggan first buy a toboggan, but don't buy too big a toboggan. Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
To begin to toboggan,
first buy a toboggan.
But don't buy too big a toboggan.
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks
Tommy Tucker tried to tie Tammy's Turtles tie
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs
Very rare vagrant wader
We surely shall see the sun shine soon
We will learn why her lowly lone, worn yarn loom will rarely earn immoral money
What a to do to die today
At a minute or two to two
A thing distinctly hard to say
And harder still to do.
What noise annoys an oyster most?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
Whether the weather be fine
or whether the weather be not.
Whether the weather be cold
or whether the weather be hot.
We'll weather the weather
whether we like it or not.
Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?
While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
Willie's really weary
Willy's real rear wheel
Willy's wooden whistle wouldn't whistle when Willy went wild
Wilson Winston winced whilst he minced a squinting prince
Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!
Wunwun was a racehorse, Tutu was one too. Wunwun won one race, Tutu won one too.
A bitter biting bittern bit a better biting bittern
And the better biting bittern bit the bitter biting bittern back.
Said the bitter biting bittern to the better biting bittern
I'm a bitter biting bittern bitten back
A fly and flea flew into a flue,
said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?'
let us fly' said the flea
said the fly 'shall we flee'
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.
A maid named Lady Marmalade
made mainly lard and lemonade.
M'lady lamely never made
a well-named, labelled marmalade.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
A tree toad loved a she-toad,
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a three-toed tree toad,
But a two-toed toad was she.
The three-toed tree toad tried to win,
The two-toed she-toad's heart,
For the three-toed tree toad loved the ground,
That the two-toed tree toad trod.
But the three-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower,
With her two-toed power,
The she-toad vetoed him.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes,
they're great!
As I was in Arkansas I saw a saw that could out saw any saw I ever saw saw. If you happen to be in Arkansas and see a saw that can out saw the saw I saw saw I'd like to see the saw you saw saw.
As one black bug, bled black blood. The other black bug bled blue.
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar
Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 't was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.
Bob's pop-up blocker blocks Bob's pop-ups
Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
"Boo!" cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.
Chop shops stock chops
Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
Does your sport shop stock short socks with spots?
Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?
Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts
Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth
Federal Express is now called FedEx.
When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex.
But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec.
Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex.
If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec.
When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.
Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.
Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash. If Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash, how many grams of gummy goulash did Grandma Gabby Grammer grab?
Green glass globes glow greenly
How many ducks could a duck duct-tape, if a duck could duct-tape ducks?
How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.
How much juice does a fruit juice producer produce when a fruit juice producer produces fruit juice?
How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle?
A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.
How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?
I saw Esau kissing Kate.
I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.
I thought the haughty Professor Tortoise taught ontology, but the naughty Tortoise taught us tautology.
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish,
but if you wish the wish the witch wishes,
I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot tot be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?
If Kantie can tie a tie and untie a tie,
why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie like Kantie can.
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie
In shoulder surgery some surgeons sew soldiers' shoulders
Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup
Lucid Lou slued loose the sluice that slew the slough.
Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
My back black brake blocks are broken
Of all the felt I ever felt I never felt felt that felt like that felt felt
Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos
One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they felt smart.
Four smart fellows, they felt smart.
Five smart fellows, they felt smart.
Six smart fellows, they felt smart.
Pete's pa pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.
Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum
Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch
Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right
Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle
Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents
She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in
She surely suits shiny sleek short skirts
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
Silly shoe-fly pie fans sell chilly shoe-fly pie pans.
Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers,
Such saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews,
Some soldiers send epistles say they'd sooner sleep on thistles,
Than those saucy soft short shirts for soldiers,
Sister Susie sews.
Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
Six Czech cricket critics
Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks
Swan swam over the sea.
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again.
Well swum swan!
Sweet sagacious Sally Sanders said she sure saw seven segregated seaplanes sailing swiftly southward Saturday.
The boot black brought the black boot back
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye
Were the size of the Leith police.
The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Tito and Tato were tattooed in total
But Toto was only tattooed on his toe
So Tato told Tito where Toto was tattooed
But Tito said Toto's tattoo wouldn't show
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?
Which Witch snitched the Snitch Witch?
Or did the Snitch Witch snitch the Witch?
If the Snitch Witch snitched the Witch
then which Witch did the Snitch Witch snitch?
A big black bear sat on a big black bug
A bragging baker baked black bread
A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped
A lump of red leather, a red leather lump
A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot
A quick witted cricket critic
A real rare whale
A sailor went to sea to see what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara
A turbot's not a burbot, for a turbot's a butt, but a burbot's not
An elephant was asphyxiated in the asphalt
An inchworm inches on ivy that itches
Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April
Are our oars oak?
Argyle Gargoyle
Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
Betty's big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush
black back bat
Blue glue gun, green glue gun
Broken blue crayon
Busy buzzing bumble bees
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.
Cheap ship trip
Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheep cheddar cheese
Chill, Shake, Serve
Chip Shop Chips
Clean clams crammed in clean cans
Clowns grow glowing crowns
Cooks cook cupcakes quickly
Daddy Draws Doors
Dick kicks sticky bricks
Dimensional analysis
Double bubble gum, bubbles double
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs
Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree
Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree
Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month
Eve eating eagerly elegant Easter eggs
Flies fly but a fly flies
Four fine fresh fish for you
Four furious friends fought for the phone
Four furious friends fought for the phone
Fresh French fried fly fritters
Freshly-fried flying fish
Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins
Furnish Freddie's nursery with forty-four furry Furby Beanie Babies
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
Gig whip, gig whip, gig whip
Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins
Good blood, bad blood
gradually giving gophers gooey guts
Great gray goats
Greek grapes
Greek grapes
Green and brown blades of grass
He threw three balls
Hercules, a hardy hunter, hunted a hare in the Hampshire Hills. Hit him on the head with a hard, hard hammer and he howled horribly!
How many berries could a bare berry carry?
How may saws could a see-saw saw if a see-saw could saw saws?
I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning
I eat eel while you peel eel
I like New York, unique New York, I like unique New York.
I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!
I see a sea down by the seashore
I shot the city sheriff
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit
I was born on a pirate ship
I wish you were a fish in my dish
I would if I could! But I can't, so I won't!
I'll chew and chew until my jaws drop
If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years?
If you go for a gopher a gopher will go for a gopher hole
If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
Inchworms itching
Iranian Uranium
It dawned on Don at dawn
Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes
Labradoodle, labradoodle, labradoodle
Lady Luck dislikes losers
Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's
Loyal royal lawyer
Mallory's hourly salary
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw
Mumbling, bumbling. Bumbling, mumbling.
Mummies make money
My Friend Gladys
Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she's sad.
Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she's glad.
But the sadness of her sadness,
and the gladness of her gladness,
Are nothing like her madness when she's mad!
Nat the bat swat at Matt the gnat
Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts
Nope, an antelope can't elope with a cantelope
Nothing is worth thousands of deaths
Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock
Pirates Private Property
Please pay promptly
Professor Peter Peckinpah
Quick kiss. Quicker kiss
Ralph rakes leaves really, really lousily
Rattle your bottles in Rollocks' van
Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall
Really leery, rarely Larry
Really very weary, really very weary, really very weary
Red blood, green blood
Red lolly, yellow lolly
Richard's wretched ratchet wrench
Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins
Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins
Rolling red wagons
Roofs of mushrooms rarely mush too much
Round the rough and rugged rock the ragged rascal rudely ran
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Rudder valve reversals
Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers
Salty broccoli, salty broccoli, salty broccoli
Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks
Santa's Short Suit Shrunk
Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks
Seventy seven benevolent elephants
Shave a single shingle thins
She said she should sit
She sees cheese
She sees seas slapping shores
She sells sea shells by the seashore
Sheena leads, Sheila needs
Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section
Shredded Swiss chesse
Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop
Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand
Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas
Six slick, slim, slender saplings
Six slimy snails sailed silently
Six socks sit in a sink, soaking in soap suds
Six sticky skeletons
So, this is the sushi chef?
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
Stupid superstition
Supposed to be pistachio
Susie sits shining silver shoes
Swatch watch
Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side
The epitome of femininity
The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive
The greedy Greek geek agreed
The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
The little red lorry went down Limuru road
The myth of Miss Muffet
The queen in green screamed
The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel
There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through
There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch
Thieves seize skis
Thin sticks, thick bricks
This is a zither
This is the sixth zebra snoozing thoroughly
Three grey geese
In a green field grazing,
Grey were the geese
And green was the grazing.
Three short sword sheaths
Three thin thinkers thinking thick thoughtful thoughts
Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
Tragedy strategy
Truly rural
Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town
Two tiny timid toads trying to trot to Tarrytown
Two to two to Toulouse?
Two toads, totally tired
Two tried and true tridents
Upper roller, lower roller
Velvet Revolver
Very well, very well, very well
Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently
Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses
We won, we won, we won, we won
Which sea do you see down by the seashore?
Which witch is which?
Which witch is which?
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
Who holds Joe's nose when he blows? Joe knows.
Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear when Washington's washer-woman went west?
Will you, William?
Yelling yellow Yeti
You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!
A big blue bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
A black bloke's back brake-block broke
A box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.
A cunning young canner from Canning
Once observed to his granny,
A canner can can
a lot of things gran,
But a canner can't can a can, can he?
A flea and a fly in a flue,
were imprisoned. So what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee".
Said the flea, "Let us fly".
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule
A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest
A pessimistic pest exists amidst us
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
A shapeless sash sags slowly
A singly circularly linked list
A smart fella, a fella smart.
It takes a smart fella to say a fella smart.
A snake sneaks to seek a snack
A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym
A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"
A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
and the twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist.
now in twisting this twist,
if a twist should untwist,
would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists?
A wooden worm wouldn't be worthy of worship but would he if he wondered and worried about what he would be worthy of if he wasn't wooden?
Ah shucks, six stick shifts stuck shut!
All I want is a proper cup of coffee,
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot
But I want a cup of coffee
From a proper coffee pot.
Aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum
Bake big batches of bitter brown bread
Betty better butter Brad's bread
Betty bought a bit of butter.
But the butter Betty bought was bitter.
so Betty bought a better butter,
and it was better than the butter Betty bought before.
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
Bill had a billboard, Bill also had a board bill. The billboard bored Bill so Bill sold the billboard to pay for the board bill.
Black background, brown background
Black Rock Brain Lock
Brad's big black bath brush broke
Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons balancing them badly
Broken back brake block
Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Cedar shingles should be shaved and saved
Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant
Cheap Sheep Sheets, Cheap Sheep Sheets, Cheap Sheep Sheets.
Chester chooses chestnuts,
cheddar cheese with chewy chives.
He chews them and he chooses them.
He chooses them and he chews them
Those chestnuts, cheddar cheese
and chives in cheery, charming chunks.
Clean clams crammed in clean cans
Cook 'Cookie' Turk took Kookie Kirk a turkey cookie.
Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves
Craig Quinn's quick trip to Crabtree Creek
Crash Quiche Course
Crisp crusts crackle crunchily
Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes
Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig Doug's garden?
Does this shop sport short socks with spots?
Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.
Don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you! If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles you!
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.
Drunk drugged ducks, Drunk drugged ducks, Drunk drugged ducks
Dust is a disk's worst enemy
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs
Eddie edited it
Eleven benevolent elephants
Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively
Farrell's features fabulous food 'n' fantastic fountain fantasies for frolicking, fun-filled festive families.
Fat frogs flying past fast
Five fat friars frying flat fish
Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes
Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes
Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.
Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
Forgiveness forms a firm foundation for future fortitude
Four poor fools filled four pools full
Frank's fisher fishes on Friday for Frank's Friday fresh fried fish-fest.
Fred Threlfall's thirty-five fine threads are finer threads than Fred Threlfall's thirty-five thick threads.
Freddy is ready to roast red roaches.
Ready for Freddy's roasted red roaches?
Fresh French fried fly fritters
Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks
Frozen Floyd flicks fat fleas for a fixed flat fee
Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar
Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle
Green glass globes glow greenly
Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.
He threw three free throws
He wanted to desert his dessert in the desert!
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.
How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.
How many cats would a caddie catch if a caddie could catch cats?
How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies?
How many pounds in a groundhog's mound when a groundhog pounds hog mounds?
How many snacks could a snack stacker stack,
if a snack stacker snacked stacked snacks?
How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?
How much cash could a sasquatch stash if a sasquatch could stash cash?
How much dough would Bob Dole dole
if Bob Dole could dole dough?
Bob Dole would dole as much dough
as Bob Dole could dole,
if Bob Dole could dole dough.
How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.
I broke a brickbat and a brickbat broke me
I gratefully gazed at the gracefully grazing gazelles
I saw a saw in Warsaw. Of all the saws I ever saw I never saw a saw that could saw, like the saw I saw in Warsaw.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
I stood sadly on the silver steps of Burgess's fish sauce shop, mimicking him hiccuping, and wildly welcoming him within.
I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
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 so much.
I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch
If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice,
I'm perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
If two witches were watching two watches: which witch would watch which watch?
If you can't can any candy can,
how many candy cans can a candy canner can
if he can can candy cans ?
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
how do I understand that you understand? Understand!?
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie
In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.
Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
It's a nice night for a white rice fight
It's not the cough that carries you off,
it's the coffin they carry you off in!
Jack's nap sack strap snapped
Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead
Knife and a fork bottle and a cork
that is the way you spell New York.
Chicken in the car and the car can go,
that is the way you spell Chicago.
Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.
Lenny Lou leopard led leprechauns leaping like lemmings.
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Linda-Lou Lambert Loves Lemon Lollipop Lipgloss
Listen to the local yokel yodel
Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads
Lovely lemon liniment
Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone
Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight
Midget minute, midget minute, midget minute
Moose noshing much mush
Moses supposes his toeses are roses.
But Moses supposes erroneously.
Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be.
I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
National Sheepshire Sheep Association
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely
No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight
No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight
No nose knows like a gnome's nose knows
Of all the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
which felt as fine as that felt felt.
On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser
One Double Dozen Double Damask Dinner Napkins
Pacific Lithograph
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?
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick.
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
Plague-bearing prairie dogs
Plaid pleated pants, Plaid pleated pants, Plaid pleated pants
Plymouth sleuths thwart Luther's slithering
Preshrunk silk shirts
Preshrunk silk shirts
Purple paper people, purple paper people, purple paper people
Quick queens quack quick quacks quicker than quacking quails
Quizzical quiz, kiss me quick
Rather Ruth's writhings than Roth's wrath
Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?
Red Buick, blue Buick
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
Rory's lawn rake rarely rakes really right
Selfish shellfish
Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors
Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.
Seventy-seven benevolent elephants
Shave a single shingle thin
She is a thistle-sifter. She has a sieve of unsifted thistles and a sieve of sifted thistles and the sieve of unsifted thistles she sifts into the sieve of sifted thistles because she is a thistle-sifter.
She saw Sharif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure those were Sharif's shoes she saw?
She should shun the shining sun
She thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of her thumb
Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers
Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter,
seized his knees and sneezed.
Six sharp smart sharks
Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities
Six short slow shepherds
Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
Six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons
Six sticky sucker sticks.
Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers
Sleep sweetly sleep sweetly sleep sweetly
Slick slim slippers sliding south
Slinking, sliding, slithering slyly,
Swiftly slipping through the grasses shyly,
Silent but for swish and hiss
Is the sinuous snake's leglessness.
Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup
Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters
Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.
Strange strategic statistics
Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city
Sure the ship's shipshape, sir
Sure, sir, the ship's sure shipshape, sir
Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines
Suzie Seaword's fish-sauce shop sells unsifted thistles for thistle-sifters to sift
Sweater weather, leather weather
Tell Tom the ticket taker to take the ticket to the ticket wicket
Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn't teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.
The blue bluebird blinks
The bottle of perfume that Willy sent
was highly displeasing to Millicent.
Her thanks were so cold
that they quarreled, I'm told
o'er that silly scent Willy sent Millicent.
The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom
The cat catchers can't catch caught cats.
The cat in the hat had a big fat hat to hit the other cat with the funny fat hat
The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
The seething sea ceaseth; thus the seething sea sufficeth us
The Smothers brothers' father's mother's brothers are
the Smothers brothers' mother's father's other brothers.
The soldier's shoulder surely hurts
The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday
Theodore Thistle threw three thorny thistles.
There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two, too.
There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich
There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan
These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
They hatch fish at the state fish hatchery and sell hatched fish to the fish stick factory
Thin grippy thick slippery
Thirty-six thick silk threads
Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did, what Anybody could have done.
Three fluffy feathers fell from Phoebe's flimsy fan
Three free throws
Three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters.
If three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters,
where's the twisters the three tree turtles talked?
Three twigs twined tightly
Tie twine to three tree twigs
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith
To begin to toboggan first buy a toboggan, but don't buy too big a toboggan. Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
To begin to toboggan,
first buy a toboggan.
But don't buy too big a toboggan.
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks
Tommy Tucker tried to tie Tammy's Turtles tie
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs
Very rare vagrant wader
We surely shall see the sun shine soon
We will learn why her lowly lone, worn yarn loom will rarely earn immoral money
What a to do to die today
At a minute or two to two
A thing distinctly hard to say
And harder still to do.
What noise annoys an oyster most?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
Whether the weather be fine
or whether the weather be not.
Whether the weather be cold
or whether the weather be hot.
We'll weather the weather
whether we like it or not.
Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?
While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
Willie's really weary
Willy's real rear wheel
Willy's wooden whistle wouldn't whistle when Willy went wild
Wilson Winston winced whilst he minced a squinting prince
Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!
Wunwun was a racehorse, Tutu was one too. Wunwun won one race, Tutu won one too.
A bitter biting bittern bit a better biting bittern
And the better biting bittern bit the bitter biting bittern back.
Said the bitter biting bittern to the better biting bittern
I'm a bitter biting bittern bitten back
A fly and flea flew into a flue,
said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?'
let us fly' said the flea
said the fly 'shall we flee'
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.
A maid named Lady Marmalade
made mainly lard and lemonade.
M'lady lamely never made
a well-named, labelled marmalade.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
A tree toad loved a she-toad,
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a three-toed tree toad,
But a two-toed toad was she.
The three-toed tree toad tried to win,
The two-toed she-toad's heart,
For the three-toed tree toad loved the ground,
That the two-toed tree toad trod.
But the three-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower,
With her two-toed power,
The she-toad vetoed him.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes,
they're great!
As I was in Arkansas I saw a saw that could out saw any saw I ever saw saw. If you happen to be in Arkansas and see a saw that can out saw the saw I saw saw I'd like to see the saw you saw saw.
As one black bug, bled black blood. The other black bug bled blue.
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar
Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 't was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.
Bob's pop-up blocker blocks Bob's pop-ups
Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
"Boo!" cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.
Chop shops stock chops
Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
Does your sport shop stock short socks with spots?
Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?
Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts
Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth
Federal Express is now called FedEx.
When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex.
But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec.
Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex.
If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec.
When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.
Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.
Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash. If Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash, how many grams of gummy goulash did Grandma Gabby Grammer grab?
Green glass globes glow greenly
How many ducks could a duck duct-tape, if a duck could duct-tape ducks?
How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.
How much juice does a fruit juice producer produce when a fruit juice producer produces fruit juice?
How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle?
A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.
How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?
I saw Esau kissing Kate.
I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.
I thought the haughty Professor Tortoise taught ontology, but the naughty Tortoise taught us tautology.
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish,
but if you wish the wish the witch wishes,
I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot tot be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?
If Kantie can tie a tie and untie a tie,
why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie like Kantie can.
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie
In shoulder surgery some surgeons sew soldiers' shoulders
Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup
Lucid Lou slued loose the sluice that slew the slough.
Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
My back black brake blocks are broken
Of all the felt I ever felt I never felt felt that felt like that felt felt
Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos
One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they felt smart.
Four smart fellows, they felt smart.
Five smart fellows, they felt smart.
Six smart fellows, they felt smart.
Pete's pa pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.
Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum
Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch
Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right
Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle
Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents
She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in
She surely suits shiny sleek short skirts
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
Silly shoe-fly pie fans sell chilly shoe-fly pie pans.
Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers,
Such saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews,
Some soldiers send epistles say they'd sooner sleep on thistles,
Than those saucy soft short shirts for soldiers,
Sister Susie sews.
Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
Six Czech cricket critics
Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks
Swan swam over the sea.
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again.
Well swum swan!
Sweet sagacious Sally Sanders said she sure saw seven segregated seaplanes sailing swiftly southward Saturday.
The boot black brought the black boot back
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye
Were the size of the Leith police.
The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Tito and Tato were tattooed in total
But Toto was only tattooed on his toe
So Tato told Tito where Toto was tattooed
But Tito said Toto's tattoo wouldn't show
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?
Which Witch snitched the Snitch Witch?
Or did the Snitch Witch snitch the Witch?
If the Snitch Witch snitched the Witch
then which Witch did the Snitch Witch snitch?