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Tongue Twisters 

Jayanthi.K.P.

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Twist your tongue to say these plosives

A proper copper coffee potPeople pledging plenty of pennies. Penny's pretty pink piggy bankPeter Pan played the pianoPooped purple pelicans.Parker Penn picked the pebbles in the pondBob bought a bike for his birthday because he was bored Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit,did Billy Button buy a buttered biscuit?If Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit,Where's the buttered biscuit Billy Button bought? Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better

butter to make the bitter butter better.Bob Black brought some bric a brac

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/t/ &/d/Take the tea tray to the tableTry teaming up with TimTom and Time topped the tableTwelve twins twirled twelve twigsTom twisted and twitched Twice we tripped toys.

Dip the dipper in the deep wellDan and Daisy danced in daylightA dozen dim ding-dongs.How much dew would a dew drop drop, if a dew drop did drop dew?

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/k/ & /g/

Keenly cleaning copper kettles.Kinky kite kits.Keep the can in the carCome kick six sticks quick.A knapsack strap. Clean clams crammed in clean

cans.Greek grapes.Gus goes by Blue Goose bus.Cows graze in droves on grass

that grows on grooves in groves.

Gale's great glass globe glows green.

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Minimal Pairs- /f/, /v/& /w/Fran feeds fish fresh fish food.Few free fruit flies fly from flames Four free-flow pipes flow freely.Valuable valley villas What veteran ventriloquist whistles !Mervin drove to the villaVincent and Vivien visited the vineyard I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch. Wally Winkle wriggles his white, wrinkled wig.Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?Wetter weather never weathered wetter weather better (Note the difference in lip positions for the three sounds)

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/s/, /sh/ & /ch/Selfish sharks sell shut shellfish.

She sells sea shells by the seashore.

Six crisp snacks.

Sherman shops at cheap chop suey shops

Seth's sharp spacesuit shrank.

She sells shoes cheap Stagecoach stops.

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Three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts.  Now if three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts, how many thoughts did each thief think?

That which is theirs is neither more or less than that which is thine. This thing and that thing are better than those things. The thin thief went through that thicket over there. The thorn was torn from those, and now it adorns my clothes. Theodore has a thin shin. Through thick and thin, I'll dare to be there and share.

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/f/, /p/, /v/, /b/, /w/The four fleas are poor fleas. Let the four poor fleas flee, please. Find four fleas on the floor, please. Puns are fun, so have some fun with five fun puns! I put some vile bile in a file and labeled it the "Vile Bile" file. "Berries vary very much," said the very berry fairy. One should wear one's best vest for the fest.  In other words, one

should wear one's best fest vest. The best fest in the West is the Vest Fest. I'm very wary of very scary films. In Latin, "verb" means word, "verbose" means 'using many words', and

"verbal" means 'of words'. Valerie values volleyball very much. 　

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Poems on English Pronunciation I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough

and dough? Others may stumble but not you

On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.

Well done! And now you wish perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead, it's said like bed, not bead-for goodness' sake don't call it 'deed'! Watch out for meat and great and threat (they rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

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Poems on English Pronunciation

A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth, or brother, And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then there's doze and rose and lose-Just look them up- and goose and choose, And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword, And do and go and thwart and cart- Come, I've hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive! I learned to speak it when I was five! And yet to write it, the more I sigh, I'll not learn how 'til the day I die.

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