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Tongue twisters

What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%?
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[/nq] Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red leather, yellow leather. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

  • [/nq] Red lorry, yellow lorry.
  • Red leather, yellow leather.
  • Peter Piper picked 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.
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[nq:1]What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%?[/nq]
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Red leather, yellow leather.
Peter Piper picked 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.
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[nq:1]What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%?[/nq]
Not so much a tongue- twister as a way of saying 'naughty' words and getting away with it:
I ran a bug
Around a tub
I'll have his blood,
He knows I will.
And of course:
Piter Peper pecked a pick of peckled pippers,
A pick of peckled pippers Piter Peper pecked.
If
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[nq:2]What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%?[/nq]
[nq:1]Not so much a tongue- twister as a way of saying 'naughty' words and getting away with it: I ran a bug Around a tub I'll have his blood, He knows I will. And of course:[/nq]
I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son. I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucke
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[nq:2]What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%?[/nq]
[nq:1]Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red leather, yellow leather. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.[/nq]
... A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
[nq:1]If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? She sells sea s
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At 13:48:57 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Tony Mountifield
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Still the sinking steamer sank.
Peggy Babcock.

Molly Mockford
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[nq:1]What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%? Pawe=B3[/nq]
Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat..
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[nq:2]Not so much a tongue- twister as a way of ... have his blood, He knows I will. And of course:[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son. I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes... http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm[/nq]
The
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[nq:1]What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%? Pawe³[/nq]
May not so much a toungue twister, but surely a mind twister:

A tooter who taught on the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tutors to toot?

Best,
Erick Andrews
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At 21:24:12 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Erick Andrews (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:2]I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son. I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes... http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm[/nq]
[nq:1]The way I heard it was: I'm no
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[nq:1]What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%?[/nq]
This is one I've always particularly liked :
I am not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son
but I'll be plucking pheasants
When the pheasant plucker's gone.
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