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15-04-2008, 10:14 AM
A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to
articulate properly. Tongue-twisters may rely on similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s [s] and sh [ʃ]), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a language.
An example of a tongue-twister is
Billy blew a blue bubble while bouncing on a bongo. Many tongue-twisters use a combination of alliteration and rhyme. They have two or three sequences of sounds, then the same sequences of sounds with some sounds exchanged. The world's most famous tongue twister is she sells sea shells by the sea shore. Another example, Betty Botter ( listen here):
Listen here (http://www.zshare.net/audio/10562040b2468ecf/)
After the listening , I think you are laughing so hard .Let's go deep down to the words which you listened in the audio file above :
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter
And made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
Makes batter better.
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter,
Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better.
Here are many examples of tounge twisters :
Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.
Chocolate chip cookies in a copper coffee cup
Cheap sheep soup
A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
When a doctor gets sick and another doctor doctors him,
does the doctor doing the doctoring have to doctor the doctor the way the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored,
or does the doctor doing the doctoring of the doctor doctor the doctor as he wants to do the doctoring?
A gentle judge judges justly.
June sheep sleep soundly.
articulate properly. Tongue-twisters may rely on similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s [s] and sh [ʃ]), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a language.
An example of a tongue-twister is
Billy blew a blue bubble while bouncing on a bongo. Many tongue-twisters use a combination of alliteration and rhyme. They have two or three sequences of sounds, then the same sequences of sounds with some sounds exchanged. The world's most famous tongue twister is she sells sea shells by the sea shore. Another example, Betty Botter ( listen here):
Listen here (http://www.zshare.net/audio/10562040b2468ecf/)
After the listening , I think you are laughing so hard .Let's go deep down to the words which you listened in the audio file above :
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter
And made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
Makes batter better.
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter,
Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better.
Here are many examples of tounge twisters :
Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.
Chocolate chip cookies in a copper coffee cup
Cheap sheep soup
A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
When a doctor gets sick and another doctor doctors him,
does the doctor doing the doctoring have to doctor the doctor the way the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored,
or does the doctor doing the doctoring of the doctor doctor the doctor as he wants to do the doctoring?
A gentle judge judges justly.
June sheep sleep soundly.