Phrase that is intentionally difficult to articulate properly
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. Additionally, they can be used as exercises to improve pronunciation and fluency. Some tongue twisters produce results that 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.
A tonguetwister 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. Additionally...
animal, wuchak. The similarity between the words has led to the popular tongue-twister: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood...
that of neighbouring Unterammergau) appears in a well-known German tongue-twister, often sung as a round: German: Heut' kommt der Hans zu mir, / freut...
Piper" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19745. The traditional version...
Recitation of the Betty Botter tonguetwister Problems playing this file? See media help. Betty Botter is a tonguetwister written by American author Carolyn...
perform a very long tongue-twister. If any of the cast make a mistake, the sketch is immediately restarted. Each tongue-twister has a letter that they...
toeses are roses" is a piece of English-language nonsense verse and a tongue-twister, whimsically describing the prophet Moses mistakenly conjecturing his...
Theophilus Thistle is the title of a famous tongue-twister, of which there are multiple versions. One version reads as: Theophilus Thistle, the thistle...
most graphic and sadistic ways possible. His deaths usually involve his tongue, head, limbs, and organs. He is voiced by Liz Stuart. Pop and Cub – Two...
in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic dog) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end. The book...
syllable nucleus and carry rising or falling tone; examples include the tongue-twister na vrh brda vrba mrda and geographic names such as Krk. In Czech and...
or sarcastic humour. A tonguetwister is a phrase very difficult to pronounce. Aside from being a medical condition, "tongue-tied" means being unable...
Genoese, locally called zeneise or zeneize (Ligurian: [zeˈnejze]), is the prestige dialect of Ligurian, spoken in and around the Italian city of Genoa...
Dictionary. K’ulb’il Yol Twitz Paxil / The Academy of Mayan Languages, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Academia de las Lenguas Mayas[permanent...
bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better..." (from the tongue-twister rhyme Betty Botter by Carolyn Wells) "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled...
of the film was released on 4 March 2024. Actor Suraj Venjaramoodu's Tonguetwister, a behind the scenes video, became viral, with the motion poster of...
lyrics to the 1908 song which, McCartney claimed, became the popular tonguetwister, "She Sells Seashells": She sells seashells on the seashore The shells...
Kumagusu reported in 1913 a tonguetwister Chiki chiki onbō[...] he learned 30 years ago, although this was played as a tonguetwister, not a tale. "Jugemu"...