English Tongue Twisters

The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

I know a boy named Tate who dined with his girl at eight eight. I’m unable to state what Tate ate at eight or what Tate’s tete-a-tete ate at eight eight.

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.

How much dew does a dewdrops drop if dewdrops do drop dew? They do drop, they do as do dewdrops drop if dewdrops do drop dew.

Through three trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.

How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle? A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.

How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.

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.

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter, so Betty bought some better butter, and the better butter Betty bought was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck could chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.

Oh, the sadness of her sadness when she’s sad. Oh, the gladness of her gladness when she’s glad. But the sadness of her sadness, and the gladness of her gladness, are nothing like her madness when she’s mad!

She is a thistle-sifter. She has a sieve of unsifted thistles and a sieve of sifted thistles and the sieve of unsifted thistles she sifts into the sieve of sifted thistles because she is a thistle-sifter.

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock or some joker who is slicker is going to trick you of your liquor if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.

A Tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”

Three geese have left the thriftshop and lost both their theatre tickets, and the volume of valuable licenses, and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills.

A flea and a fly up in a flue. Said the flea, “Let us fly!” Said the fly, “Let us flee!” So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watches which Swatch watch?