Famous Tongue Twisters

So, let's continue with some more famous tongue twisters. All set? OK.

The first one here is a funny one about two doctors:

If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor
Who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the
Doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor
The doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

This is another funny one about what happened during a walk in Washington:

While we were walking,
We were watching window washers
Wash Washington's windows
With warm washing water.

Now have a look at the next famous tongue twister poem about a bear and a boar:

Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor.

And so one morn he bored the boar;
That boar will bore the bear no more.

Here's another poem of the famous tongue twisters:

How many cans can a canner can
If a canner can can cans?

A canner can can that many cans
As a canner can can cans.

One of the most famous tongue twisters is the next funny poem. It's about two cowboys, Ned Nott and Sam Shott, who fought a duel:

Ned Nott was shot
and Sam Shott was not.

So it is better to be Shott
than Nott.
Some say Nott
was not shot.
But Shott says
he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott
was not shot,
or
Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott,
Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
then Shott was shot,
not Nott.
However,
the shot Shott shot shot not Shott,

but Nott.

The next famous tongue twister talks about a guy called Peter Piper:

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?

This one is from Children's Literature, A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes (1920) by Curry and Clippinger.

This is another cute one:

He's the Twistable Turnable Squeezable Pullable
Stretchable Foldable Man.
He can crawl in your pocked or fit your locket,
Or screw himself into a twenty-volt socket,
Or stretch himself up to the steeple or taller,
Or squeeze himself into a thimble or smaller.
Yes he can, course he can,
He’s the Twistable Turnable Squeezable Pullable
Stretchable Foldable Man.

And he lives a passable life
With his Squeezable Lovable Kissable Hugable
Pullable Tugable Wife.

And they have two twistable kids
Who bend up the way that they did.

And they turn and they stretch
Just as much as they can
For this Bendable Foldable
Do-what–you’re-toldable
Easily moldable
Buy-what-you’re-soldable
Washable Mendable
Highly Dependable
Buyable Saleable
Always available
Bounceable Shakeable
Almost unbreakable
Twistable Turnable Man.

by Shel Silverstein, from A Light in the Attic

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