Long Tongue Twisters

A big black bear sat on a big black rug.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /r/

A proper cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /f/

An awful aardvark and an aching ape ate an antelope.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /æ/, /n/

Ghostly ghouls gather gleefully to golf on ghostly golf courses.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɡ/

I scream you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /skr/, /s/

If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /z/

Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɪ/, /n/

Professional Pumpkin Pickers are prone to pick the plumpest pumpkins.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /p/

Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /r/

Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /t/

Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /d/

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʧ/, /tʃ/

Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /k/

Transylvanian Tree Trimmers are trained to trim the tallest Transylvanian trees.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /t/

Biting babies ride battle toys while bumbling boys brave bald biting babies.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /br/

Give Papa a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee cup.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /p/

Horribly hoarse hoot owls hoot howls of horror in halloween haunted houses.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /h/, /h/

If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /f/

If two witches watched watches then which witch would watch which watch?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /tʃ/

A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

A certain young fellow named Beebee, Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

An old seabear sits on the pier and drinks a pint of beer.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /b/

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /tʃ/

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ð/, /s/

If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I'm perfectly practised and practically perfect.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /k/

Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /r/

She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /m/, /h/

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /ʃ/

You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /n/, /j/

If big black bats could blow bubbles, how big of bubbles would big black bats blow?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

A canner can can anything that he can, But a canner can't can a can, can he?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /n/

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /w/

Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /ʃ/

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /st/

I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I'll see you at the gate, so don't be late.

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  • /d/, /t/

Sarah, Sarah, sits in her Chevy; When she shifts she sips her Schlitz, and when she sips her Schlitz she shifts.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /s/

Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /n/

If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /k/

I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought I thought.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /ð/