Hard Tongue Twisters for improving Pronunciation

At one point, “the sixth sick Sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick” held the Guinness World Record for the hardest twister, but since the category no longer exists, the title was probably revoked.

Don’t worry though! We are not running out of options. In 2013, MIT‌ researchers concluded that “pad kid poured curd pulled cod” is the hardest tongue twister in the world. In fact, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, an MIT psychologist, says you will get a prize if you manage to say that 10 times quickly. And not any kind of “quickly”. We’re talking supersonic-Eminem-quickly!

• Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
• If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
• Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
• Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
• Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?
• The sixth sick Sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.
• Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
• Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly impractical instruments.
• I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.
• 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?
• These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
• Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
• Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
• A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
• Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
• He threw three free throws.
• Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
• Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
• Chop shops stock chops.

 A Special One

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

The world-famous Peter Piper tongue twister first appeared in print in 1813, in a book called “Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation”, though it is believed that it may have already been in common use by that time. Fast forward to today, people all around the world still love to have a laugh and twist their tongues with this rhyme and many others. And now you do too.