Tongue twisters
1. The big baker bakes black bread.
2. “The bun is better buttered,” Bill muttered.
3. Cheryl’s cheap chip shop sells cheap chips.
4. You can have:
fried fresh fish,
fish fried fresh,
fresh fried fish,
fresh fish fried,
or fish fresh fried.
Who can translate the no. 4 into Chinese properly?
5. All I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper coffeepot.
You can believe it or not—
I want a cup of coffee
In a proper coffeepot.
Tin coffeepots or
Iron coffeepots,
They’re no use to me.
If I can’t have a
Proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffeepot
I’ll have a cup of tea.
6. 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.
7. I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought
I thought I thought.
8. One-one was a racehorse.
Two-two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.
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