# Favorite tongue-twisters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213 "2004-06-14T01:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/1 "2004-06-14T01:12:53Z")
I am not a fig plucker Nor a fig plucker’s son, But I will pluck figs Until the fig plucker comes! Try that three times fast! What’s your favorite? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/2 "2004-06-14T02:59:26Z")
Susie Shelby sits shining shoes. Susie sit as Shelby shines, and Shelby sits as Susie shines. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/3 "2004-06-14T03:34:25Z")
Old Mother Rutterputter’s rough-cut punt Not a punt cut rough, but a rough-cut punt Hollow in the middle and shaggy in the front Old Mother Rutterputter’s rough-cut punt ---
**Author:** ![cmason32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmason32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmason32)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/4 "2004-06-14T03:36:55Z")
say “unique new york” 5 times fast ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/5 "2004-06-14T04:16:15Z")
Heck, try saying “thistle” five times fast. That’s the worst tongue twister I know. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/6 "2004-06-14T04:23:46Z")
A slight modification on BrainGluttons 1st one… I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant pluckers mate I’m only plucking pheasants cause the pheasant pluckers late I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant pluckers wife I’ve been plucking mother pheasants my whole pheasant plucking life ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/7 "2004-06-14T10:15:29Z")
I put my foot in the bucket, and footed the bucket about I shine my city shoes She sells seashells by the seashore Rubber baby buggy bumpers Any one of those, as fast as you can 5x in a row. Ahh that brings back memories … ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/8 "2004-06-14T12:33:19Z")
The big black bug bled black blood. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/9 "2004-06-14T12:36:27Z")
Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his broiling bloody breast. (Not a tongue twister, per se, as it’s from _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_; however, it certainly tied my tongue in knots the first few times I tried to say it.) I am a pleasant mother pheasant-plucker. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant-plucker That ever plucked a mother pheasant. ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/10 "2004-06-14T12:42:08Z")
“The Leith police dismisseth us.” Not as good as the rude ones, you pheasant pluckers. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/11 "2004-06-14T12:43:17Z")
The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick. 🙂 (Heck, that was difficult to _type_…) ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/12 "2004-06-14T17:46:10Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The big black bug bled black blood. I was going to say “Bugs Black Blood” repeated three times, but trying to say your variation just once made me remember my drinking days. You win. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/13 "2004-06-14T17:52:23Z")
The shotest ones I know: “Toy Boat” ten times fast. Or even shorter “oil” ten times fast. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/14 "2004-06-14T18:20:38Z")
> [@N. Sane](#): > > Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his broiling bloody breast. (Not a tongue twister, per se, as it’s from _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_; however, it certainly tied my tongue in knots the first few times I tried to say it.) That line is great. 😃 Actually, you can find all sorts of inadvertent tonguetwisters just by reading Shakespeare aloud – I find, for instance, that “impartial are our eyes and ears” is physically impossible for me to say for some odd reason, and “We are enforced to farm our royal realm” is pretty nasty as well. Clearly I have issues with the letter R (that’s the dog’s name… ;)) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/15 "2004-06-14T20:06:49Z")
This reminds me of that episode of “Pinky and the Brian” with the Hackensack Kicky Sack sack-kicker factory: > [@](#): > > The Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? > Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I’ve sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/16 "2004-06-14T22:13:17Z")
From a restaraunt in Florida…named Fudpuckers How much fud could a fudpucker puck if a fudpucker could puck fud ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/17 "2004-06-15T02:14:43Z")
> [@Katisha](#): > > Actually, you can find all sorts of inadvertent tonguetwisters just by reading Shakespeare aloud – I find, for instance, that “impartial are our eyes and ears” is physically impossible for me to say for some odd reason, and “We are enforced to farm our royal realm” is pretty nasty as well. Clearly I have issues with the letter R (that’s the dog’s name… ;)) Just imagine Pontius Pilate trying to manage those! Or Biggus Dickus doing “Susie and Shelbie sit shining shoes . . .” ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/18 "2004-06-15T02:44:14Z")
A tutor who tooted a flute Tried to tutor two tutors to toot Said a tutor who tooted, is it harder to toot or to tute or to tutor two tutors to toot? ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/19 "2004-06-15T02:53:57Z")
A diabolically simple one that I always liked… Say 5 times fast: Red silk, yellow silk Jammer ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/250213/20 "2004-06-15T03:02:55Z")
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