How are you at tongue twisters?
By Gumball
@Gumball (793)
United States
May 27, 2007 11:26am CST
I was on another board and they were having fun listing words that started with S. It made me think of a tongue twister my mother taught me years ago:
"I slit the sheet and the sheet slit me, slit was the sheet that was slit by me."
From there I started thinking about some other tongue twisters I've heard over the years:
"Rubber baby buggy bumpers"
"She sells seashells down by the seashore"
And one my dad taught me: "The big black bug bled black blood all over the bare barn floor."
So what tongue twisters do you know? :)
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@gingisnapz (738)
• United States
27 May 07
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. How many Pickled Peppers did Peter Piper Pick?
He he he he
I'm pretty good with tongue twisters :)
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
3 Jun 07
Reciting tongue twisters is a great way to teach a person to slow down their speach and enunciate correctly! I have heard that they are used by speech pathologists to help those who stutter and for others with speech issues. A few that I have heard are:
The sawingest saw I ever saw saw was the saw I saw saw in Arkansas
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
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@Gumball (793)
• United States
3 Jun 07
That reminds me of a song my choir teacher taught us in high school:
I saw Esau sittin' on a seesaw
I saw Esau with my girl
I saw Esau sittin' on a seesaw
givin' her a merry whirl
When I saw Esau and he saw me
I saw red and got so sore
So I took a saw and I sawed Esau
off that old seesaw
:D
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
3 Jun 07
WOW, now that one is hard to say unless I slow down!! I have been sitting here saying all these outloud. I am the only one in the den except the cat, who is now looking at me with a look that says, 'You've finally lost it!"
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@someonesmom (5761)
• Canada
1 Jun 07
Hi Gumball,
This one is an older and little known tongue twister. Huntington Hartford Hates Pickled Herring. I first heard it back in the 60's. Thanks for starting this fun discussion.:)
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