The thing is though, they are fun! Everyone knows one or two tongue twisters I think, and we all love to amaze our friends and families with these little gems - in every language.

So, here are some English tongue twisters for you to enjoy, or avoid, or to force on someone you know. If you know of one that should be here, please, tell me! Send me an email.

If I have used someone's copyrighted material here, please let me know!

A box of biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits
And a biscuit mixer

A fly and flea flew into a flue,
said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?'
'let us fly' said the flea
said the fly 'shall we flee'
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.

A pessimistic pest exists amidst us.

B

Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.

Betty bought some butter but the butter was bitter so she bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better.

Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.

Blue blood, red blood. (repeat)

Busy buzzing bumble bees.

C

Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheep cheddar cheese.

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D

E

Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

F

Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.

Four furious friends fought for the phone.

Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread

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G

Gig whip, gig whip, gig whip, ...

Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

Good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood...

Great grey goats, Great grey goats, Great grey goats...

H

How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

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I

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.

I carried the married character over the barrier.

If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts,
buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

I stood sadly on the silver steps of Burgess's fish sauce shop, mimicking him hiccupping, and wildly welcoming him within.

If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

J

Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep.

June sheep sleep soundly.

K

Keenly cleaning copper kettles.

Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest!

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L

Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.

M

Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone

Mrs. Smiths fish sauce shop

Mummies make money, mummies make money, mummies make money...

N

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

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O

One sock cutter he cuts socks,
two sock cutters they cut socks,
three sock cutters they cut socks,
they all cut socks together.

Our Joe wants to know if your Joe will lend
our Joe you Joe's banjo. If your Joe won't
lend our Joe your Joe's banjo our Joe won't
lend your Joe our Joe's banjo when our Joe
has a banjo!

P

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Q

The quack quit asking quick questions.

The queen coined quick clipped quips.

Quick kiss.
Quicker kiss.
Quickest kiss.

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R

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

Rosco the rum runner rubbed out Rudy the rat
for ruining his rum running receipts.

Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

S

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

She said she should sit.

She stood upon the balcony, inimically mimicking him
hiccupping while amicably welcoming him in.

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick

T

The epitome of femininity

There was a young fisher named Fischer
Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
The fish with a grin,
Pulled the fisherman in;
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep is sick

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

Thieves seize skis.

Tim, the thin twin tinsmith

To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock
In a pestilential prison with a life long lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.
by W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado

Tragedy, strategy (Repeat 10 times -- if you can)

Two to two to Toulouse?

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U

An undertaker undertook to under take an undertaking. The undertaking that the
undertaker undertook was the hardest undertaking the undertaker ever undertook to undertake.

Unique New York.

V

W

Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

We won, we won, we won, we won, ...

What a to do to die today
At a quarter or two to two.
A terrible difficult thing to say
But a harder thing still to do.
The dragon will come at the beat of the drum
With a rat-a-tat-tat a-tat-tat a-tat-to
At a quarter or two to two today,
At a quarter or two to two.

When tweedle beetles battle
With paddles in a puddle
They call it a tweedle beetle puddle paddle battle."    
-- Dr. Seuss

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.

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

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X

Y

You know you need unique New York

Z