English Tongue Twisters

  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
    Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
     
  • I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
    Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
     
  • How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 
  • Sheena leads, Sheila needs. 
  • There was a fisherman named Fisher
    who fished for some fish in a fissure.
    Till a fish with a grin,
    pulled the fisherman in.
    Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher.
     
  • Luke’s duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke’s duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes. (Dr. Seuss’ Fox in Socks) 
  • In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen. (film “My Fair Lady”) 
  • How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies. 
  • How many cans can a cannibal nibble
    if a cannibal can nibble cans?
    As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
    if a cannibal can nibble cans.
     
  • Whether the weather be fine
    or whether the weather be not.
    Whether the weather be cold
    or whether the weather be hot.
    We’ll weather the weather
    whether we like it or not.
     
  • Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter’s bitter.
    If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
    But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
    So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
    put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
    So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought some better butter.
     
  • She sells sea shells by the seashore. 
  • Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!