Tongue-twister

A tongue-twister is a sentence that is hard to say. They often use alliteration and homophones.

Examples

• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
• How much straw could a strawberry bury if a strawberry could bury straw.
• She slit a sheet, a sheet she slit.
• Subterranean seismograph stuck in the stratosphere.
• She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells she sells are sea-shells.
• The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Why 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?
• Mr. See owned a saw. And Mr. Saw owned a seesaw. Someday See's saw sawed Saw's seesaw. So Saw sore.
• If you understand, say understand, If you don't understand, say don't understand, but If you understand and say don't understand then how can I understand that you understand. Understand?
• Susie shines Shoes in a Shoe Shine Shop; she sits and shines, and shines and sits. Susie shines Shoes in a Shoe Shine Shop.
• She sells seashells on a sea shore, and the shells she sells are seashells, I am sure.