What are your favorite elocution exercises / tongue twisters?

[StevenYoo]

I used to do this one a lot before going on stage in my college drama society:

I'm a mother pheasant plucker.

I pluck mother pheasants.

I'm the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker

that ever plucked a mother pheasant.

I also like:

amidst the mists and fiercest frosts

with barest wrists and stoutest boasts

he thrusts his fists against the posts

and still insists he sees the ghosts

post some more!

 

[nakedfrog]

Six thick thistle sticks

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Six thick thistle sticks

ooh i like that one

 

[Rubycon]

Betty Botter bought some butter

But she said 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 batter better,

So she bought some better butter

Better than the bitter butter,

And she put it in her batter

And her batter was not bitter,

So 'twas better Betty Botter

Bought a bit of better butter.

That is one they make students at auctioneer school learn and say it fast.

Boy they do talk funny! :laugh:

 

[Kelemvor]

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers

Here's a tone I just found. Damn, some of them are hard.
http://www.geocities.com/Athen...36/tonguetwisters.html

And according to Guiness, here's the hardest one in the world (in english)

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Here's a tone I just found. Damn, some of them are hard.
http://www.geocities.com/Athen...36/tonguetwisters.html

holy cow

Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See's saw sawed
Soar's seesaw!

 

[Jeff7]

My Theater professor also used the "mother pheasant plucker" bit.

 

[OdiN]

When I was in choir, the director had us sing "Red Leather, Yellow Leather" in octaves from low to high, then back down again, increasing in speed as we went along.

 

[bunker]

I slit a sheet
A sheet I slit
Upon the slitted sheet I sit