http://www.vitaminq.blogspot.com/2003_07_01_vitaminq_archive.html#105899168733602978
Have a gander at this fellows blog, where he deconstructs 12 tongue twisters in such a way as to defeat the whole purpose. Can anyone help me by “untranslating” 1, 5, and 7? I recognize the other ones.
Thanks.
-Myron
Hi Myron - hope you don’t mind it from the horse’s mouth regarding my tongue twisters. 1 is ‘red lorry, yellow lorry’ (one of those repeat six times fast ones). 5 is ‘The Leith police dismisseth us’, maybe more of a UK one (and very hard). 7 is ‘A noisy noise annoys an oyster’. Now go try them! And glad you like Vit Q… and v glad you mantioned me on Straight Dope - one of my very favourite web sites.
best
Roddy
Heh-heh. Cool.
I’m glad I hadn’t heard of the three I didn’t know, rather than simply not being able to figure them out.
-M