# Shortest English Tongue Twister? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156 "2002-12-12T01:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/21 "2002-12-12T18:02:35Z")
The one that gives me the most trouble is simply a name: “Peggy Babcock.” I just can’t say that one more than once without coming out with “Pebby Bagpop” or some such. RR ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/22 "2002-12-12T18:13:56Z")
Rikki Lake Late ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/23 "2002-12-12T19:49:18Z")
I have a coworker who says “rice mountain” every time she tries to say “right mouse button” ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/24 "2002-12-12T20:12:40Z")
Pheasant plucker. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/25 "2002-12-12T20:13:53Z")
(as in: “I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son, And I’m only plucking pheasants, 'til the pheasant plucker comes.”) ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/26 "2002-12-12T20:18:31Z")
\ Joodishul System! \ **Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/27 "2002-12-12T20:41:22Z") She showed me sushi ---
**Author:** ![funions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/34f0e0/32.png) [@funions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funions)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/28 "2002-12-12T21:11:26Z")
Strange strategic statistics ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/29 "2002-12-12T21:15:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aro \* > \*\*Red leather, yellow leather (repeat several times…) \*\* We had to master that one for high school drama. It’s very tough! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/30 "2002-12-12T22:56:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Rikki Lake Late Rikki’s boyfriend worried! That, and what **Lib** said. That was one of 5 or 10 “exercises” my drama teacher assigned us for practice. Then she said nothing about it for weeks. Then one day, if you wanted to get into class, you had to pass the test. I drew _redleatheryellowleather_. Ten times. I’m also the one she made say the Greek alphabet backwards. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/31 "2002-12-12T23:26:34Z")
From a contest in _Games_ Magazine: Cinnamon Synonym. Brock Blake’s black bike’s back brake bracket block broke! Right white wheat reapers reap white wheat right. Also: United States twin screw cruiser. The Leith police dismisseth us. Longlife Lite Ballpoint Pen. I slit a sheet; a sheet I slit; upon the slitted sheet I sit. (Sorry, that’s a little longer. :p) ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/32 "2002-12-12T23:43:44Z")
I can’t say the word _sixths_. I have a hard time even _thinking_ the correct pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/33 "2002-12-13T00:03:25Z")
edited it ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/34 "2002-12-13T18:40:46Z")
(Short) Vim. Van. Van. Vim. Black bug’s blood. Bread, Blessed and Broken. (Long) A BIG BLACK BUG BIT A BIG BLACK BEAR. THE BIG BLACK BEAR BLED BLUE BLOOD ALL OVER THE BIG BLACK BARN FLOOR. --in under five seconds. I can say: Theophilus Siffle, the successful thistle sifter, while sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust 3000 thistles through the thick of his thumb…see that thou…thrust not 3000 thistles through the thick of _thy_ thumb –with an “ith” tacked onto each syllable. One of my classmates read “the liquor locker lackey” for speech class. (Hard) The fox’s where \*three… free…fleas…flew…through…three…trees…in freezing breeze…and \*SNEEZED! (Very Hard) **dougie’s** second one. I love twongue tisters. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/35 "2002-12-14T23:48:21Z")
Ethicists. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/36 "2002-12-15T05:01:33Z")
W ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/37 "2002-12-15T06:47:18Z")
pool cue Tai chi, chai tea ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156/38 "2002-12-15T22:28:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*Nuclear. \*\* You beat me to it. GW and many others have trouble with it. Even Jimmy Carter, who has a degree in nuclear engineering I think, garbles it a little. Maybe that’s because he grew up in Plains, GA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-english-tongue-twister/142156.md?page=1)