Tongue Twisters for Voiceover Artists

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.