What are Tongue Twisters?

When most people think of tongue twister a childhood image comes to mind: Attempting to recite a tricky rhyme or phrase as fast as possible without tripping over the verbal challenges and hurdles lurking within these tongue-tying sentences.

By combining the effects of alliteration (repetition of a sound), particularly of similar but not identical sounds, with a phrase designed such that it is made very easy to slips accidentally, these sentences and poems can be guaranteed to provide us with lots of fun and laughter.

A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.


this is one of the interesting topic in this subject. It challenges our tongues subtlety to mention the words which mostly have the same sounds.


For our group, this is our tongue twister;

(1)

While we were walking,

we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

(2)

Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

the second one is the most difficult tongue twister to pronoun because there are two letters have almost the same pronunciation,which are "x" and "s".

What Makes Tongue Twisters Difficult to Say

Tongue twisters use a variety of techniques to make them difficult to say, in addition to alliteration.

• Shifting from single sounds to double sounds, such as a shift from “s” to “sh.”
• Changing the order of the sounds, because our muscle memory wants to return to the first way the words are said.
• Similar yet different sounds, such as a rhyme where only the first sound changes.
• Homophones, or the use of words that sound the same and are spelled differently, such as “would” and “wood.”

There are many different tongue twisters in the English language. Some of the most popular are:

• “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
• “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
  If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
• “She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.”
• “A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood. “
• If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?”