Tongue twisters (trabalenguas)

Try to say these 3 times as fast as you can!

EXTRA EASY:

Unique New York.


Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.


A noisy noise annoys an oyster.


Strange strategic statistics.

EASY:

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.


A big black bug bit a big black bear,
made the big black bear bleed blood.


Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup

MEDIUM:

Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her
back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.


Say this sharply, say this sweetly,
Say this shortly, say this softly.
(Say this sixteen times in succession.)


If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor
who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the
doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor
the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

DIFFICULT:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?


She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.


Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter--
that would make my batter better."

So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter,
and she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter


For more English and non-English tongue twisters, I recommend Michael Reck's page of International Tongue Twisters. He has tongue twisters in many different languages!