English Tongue Twisters

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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?
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I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
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How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored?
from the comic Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Waterson
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How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
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Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.
by Raymond Weisling
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Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.
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Coy knows pseudonoise codes.
by Pierre Abbat
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Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
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The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
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Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.
by Meaghan Desbiens
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Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
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Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.
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You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!
from a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson
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Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
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Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
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Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
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I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
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Stupid superstition!
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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.
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World Wide Web
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To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock, A short, sharp shock, a big black block! To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison, And awaiting the sensation From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado
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Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
from a commercial
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If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
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Luke Luck likes lakes. Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luck's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks
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Seventy seven benevolent elephants
harder than it seems
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There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through.
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Santa's Short Suit Shrunk
name of a children's book
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I was born on a pirate ship
Hold your tounge while saying it.
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!
Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
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In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly Hever 'appen.
from the film "My Fair Lady""
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One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too.
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Eleven benevolent elephants
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Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, …
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Willy's real rear wheel
David Bowser in Harrisburg, PA
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If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years?
from Naomi Fletcher's real life
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Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
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Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
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Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?
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Pirates Private Property
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What a terrible tongue twister, what a terrible tongue twister, what a terrible tongue twister…
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When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. …
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A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
by Kitty Morrow
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Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.
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Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.
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Flash message!
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Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins.
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Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.
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How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
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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.
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How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.
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How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.
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Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me. My mother's making me marry Mary Mac. Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me? Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
from a song by Carbon Leaf
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Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter "T".
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Pete's pa pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.
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She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
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Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss
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Two tried and true tridents
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Rudder valve reversals
the cause of some plane crashes
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Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.
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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.
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Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
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Four furious friends fought for the phone.
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Plymouth sleuths thwart Luther's slithering.
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Bobby Bippy bought a bat. Bobby Bippy bought a ball. With his bat Bob banged the ball Banged it bump against the wall But so boldly Bobby banged it That he burst his rubber ball "Boo!" cried Bobby Bad luck ball Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball Now to drown his many troubles Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.
from mid-Willamette Valley theater
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Black background, brown background.
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Why do you cry, Willy? Why do you cry? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why?
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Very well, very well, very well …
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Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
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Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A Kid will eat ivy too, wouldn't ewe?
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Three short sword sheaths.
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Caution: Wide Right Turns
seen on semi-tractor trailers
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Rolling red wagons
personal name
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Green glass globes glow greenly.
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I stood sadly on the silver steps of Burgess's fish sauce shop, mimicking him hiccuping, and wildly welcoming him within.
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As I was in Arkansas I saw a saw that could out saw any saw I ever saw saw. If you happen to be in Arkansas and see a saw that can out saw the saw I saw saw I'd like to see the saw you saw saw.
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Black back bat
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The queen in green screamed.
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How many berries could a bare berry carry, if a bare berry could carry berries? Well they can't carry berries (which could make you very wary) but a bare berry carried is more scary!
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What did you have for breakfast? - rubber balls and liquor! What did you have for lunch? - rubber balls and liquor! What did you have for dinner? - rubber balls and liquor! What do you do when your sister comes home? - rubber balls and liquor!
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Snap Crackel pop, Snap Crackel pop, Snap Crackel pop
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Six slimy snails sailed silently.
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Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.
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Red Buick, blue Buick
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Roofs of mushrooms rarely mush too much.
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by Matt Duchnowski
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He threw three balls.
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The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
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Singing Sammy sung songs on sinking sand.
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We're real rear wheels.
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Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch.
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I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
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Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
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On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
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Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
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Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.
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How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel?
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He threw three free throws.
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Fresh French fried fly fritters
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Gig whip, gig whip, gig whip, …
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I was born on a pirate ship.
Say it while holding your tongue.
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2 Y's U R. 2 Y's U B. I C U R. 2 Y's 4 me!
Too wise you are. Too wise you be. I see you are. Too wise for me!
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Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.
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Eddie edited it.
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Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full!
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Wow, race winners really want red wine right away!
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The ruddy widow really wants ripe watermelon and red roses when winter arrives.
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I'll chew and chew until my jaws drop.
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Triple Dickle
a strong drink
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How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?
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Supposed to be pistachio, supposed to be pistachio, supposed to be pistachio.
by Diane Estep
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Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheep cheddar cheese.
from a high school singing class
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Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall
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Argyle Gargoyle
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Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, …
personal name
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If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.
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Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.
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Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
by Pierre Abbat
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Willie's really weary.
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Yally Bally had a jolly golliwog. Feeling folly, Yally Bally Bought his jolly golli' a dollie made of holly! The golli', feeling jolly, named the holly dollie, Polly. So Yally Bally's jolly golli's holly dollie Polly's also jolly!
by Mistah Twistah, Tony Valuch
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Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls. Whether the temperature's up or whether the temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the pitcher are always around. The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches. So whether the temperature's rises or whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls.
by Sharon Johnson
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Tommy Tucker tried to tie Tammy's Turtles tie.
John, where Peter had had "had had", had had "had"; "had had" had had his master's approval."
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Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.
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Pail of ale aiding ailing Al's travails.
from India
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Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
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If you can't can any candy can, how many candy cans can a candy canner can if he can can candy cans ?
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Octopus ocular optics. and A cat snaps a rat's paxwax.
by Pierre Abbat
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This is the sixth zebra snoozing thoroughly.
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Salty broccoli, salty broccoli, salty broccoli ....
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I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.
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A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara.
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Suzie Seaword's fish-sauce shop sells unsifted thistles for thistle-sifters to sift.
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I eat eel while you peel eel
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Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.
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Casual clothes are provisional for leisurely trips across Asia.
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East Fife Four, Forfar Five
an actual football result from the Scottish third division
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Roy Wayne Roy Rogers Roy Rash
personal names
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11 was a racehorse, 22 was 12, 1111 race, 22112.
Wunwun was a racehorse, Tutu was one too. Wunwun won one race, Tutu won one too.
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It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in!
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She said she should sit.
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Mo mi mo me send me a toe, Me me mo mi get me a mole, Mo mi mo me send me a toe, Fe me mo mi get me a mole, Mister kister feet so sweet, Mister kister where will I eat !?
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Will you, William? Will you, William? Will you, William? Can't you, don't you, won't you, William?
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I wish you were a fish in my dish
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She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.
an actor's vocal warmup for lips and tongue
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The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!
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Dust is a disk's worst enemy.
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I see a sea down by the seashore. But which sea do you see down by the seashore?
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Old Mr. Hunt had a cuddy punt Not a cuddy punt but a hunt punt cuddy.
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As one black bug, bled blue, black blood. The other black bug bled blue.
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Mommy made me eat my M&Ms.
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I'm not the fig plucker, nor the fig plucker's son, but I'll pluck figs till the fig plucker comes.
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A gazillion gigantic grapes gushed gradually giving gophers gooey guts.
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Aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum, aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum, aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum
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Thin grippy thick slippery.
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A tree toad loved a she-toad, Who lived up in a tree. He was a three-toed tree toad, But a two-toed toad was she. The three-toed tree toad tried to win, The two-toed she-toad's heart, For the three-toed tree toad loved the ground, That the two-toed tree toad trod. But the three-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower, With her two-toed power, The she-toad vetoed him.
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The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
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If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
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If you understand, say "understand". If you don't understand, say "don't understand". But if you understand and say "don't understand". how do I understand that you understand. Understand!?
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She sees cheese.
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Brent Spence Bridge Clay Wade Bailey Bridge
places in Ohio
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Chukotko-Kamchatkan
pertaining to the Siberian people living in Kamchatka
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There those thousand thinkers were thinking where did those other three thieves go through.
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Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
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One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they felt smart. Four smart fellows, they felt smart. Five smart fellows, they felt smart. Six smart fellows, they felt smart.
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Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors.
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I would if I could! But I can't, so I won't!
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But a harder thing still to do. What a to do to die today At a quarter or two to two. A terrible difficult thing to say But a harder thing still to do. The dragon will come at the beat of the drum With a rat-a-tat-tat a-tat-tat a-tat-to At a quarter or two to two today, At a quarter or two to two.
from a college drama class
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Love's a feeling you feel when you feel you're going to feel the feeling you've never felt before.
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Truly rural, truly rural, truly rural, …
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A turbot's not a burbot, for a turbot's a butt, but a burbot's not.
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I know a boy named Tate who dined with his girl at eight eight. I'm unable to state what Tate ate at eight eight or what Tate's tête à tête ate at eight eight.
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The seething sea ceaseth; thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
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Real weird rear wheels
by Michael Dworkin and Bill Harvey
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I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.
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A pessimistic pest exists amidst us.
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Knife and a fork bottle and a cork that is the way you spell New York. Chicken in the car and the car can go, that is the way you spell Chicago.
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Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.
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Two to two to Toulouse?
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Swatch watch
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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.
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Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
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Buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood, buckets of bug blood
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I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks. I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks. I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks.
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If coloured caterpillars could change their colours constantly could they keep their coloured coat coloured properly?
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We won, we won, we won, we won, …
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Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.
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by Julia Dicum
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How much ground could a grounghog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
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How may saws could a see-saw saw if a see-saw could saw saws?
by Jillian Goetz
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As he gobbled the cakes on his plate, the greedy ape said as he ate, the greener green grapes are, the keener keen apes are to gobble green grape cakes, they're great!
from Dr. Seuss's O Say Can You Say?
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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.
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Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.
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Rattle your bottles in Rollocks' van.
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A fly and flea flew into a flue, said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?' 'let us fly' said the flea said the fly 'shall we flee' so they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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How much dew does a dewdrop drop If dewdrops do drop dew? They do drop, they do As do dewdrops drop If dewdrops do drop dew.
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If Kantie can tie a tie and untie a tie, why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie like Kantie can.
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Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
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But she as far surpasseth Sycorax, As great'st does least.
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Caliban describing Miranda's beauty in "The Tempest", by William Shakespeare
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Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.
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She sits in her slip and sips Schlitz.
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Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?
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Whoever slit the sheets is a good sheet slitter.
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Mummies make money.
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Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes.
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An elephant was asphyxiated in the asphalt.
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A black bloke's back brake-block broke.
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This is a zither.
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Fresh fried fish, Fish fresh fried, Fried fish fresh, Fish fried fresh.
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There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan.
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Really leery, rarely Larry.
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Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.
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Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
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Her whole right hand really hurts.
difficult in Brazil
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Come, come, Stay calm, stay calm, No need for alarm, It only hums, It doesn't harm.
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Tie a knot, tie a knot. Tie a tight, tight knot. Tie a knot in the shape of a nought.
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Red blood, green blood
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I'm a sheet slitter. I slit sheets. I'm the sleekest sheet slitter that ever slit sheets.
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Busy buzzing bumble bees.
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A lump of red leather, a red leather lump
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Nat the bat swat at Matt the gnat.
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I shot the city sheriff. I shot the city sheriff. I shot the city sheriff.
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A lady sees a pot-mender at work at his barrow in the street. "Are you copper-bottoming 'em, man?" "No, I'm aluminiuming 'em, Mam."
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I am not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son but I'll be plucking pheasants When the pheasant plucker's gone.
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Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop. All day long she sits and shines, all day long she shines and sits, and sits and shines, and shines and sits, and sits and shines, and shines and sits. Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop. Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop. All day long he fits and tucks, all day long he tucks and fits, and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits, and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits. Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
sung by Ian Mackintosh
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Preshrunk silk shirts.
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Craig Quinn's quick trip to Crabtree Creek.
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Six shining cities, six shining cities, six shining cities.
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While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
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A big black bear sat on a big black bug.
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A bloke's bike back brake block broke.
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Sweet sagacious Sally Sanders said she sure saw seven segregated seaplanes sailing swiftly southward Saturday.
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Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, 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 bitter batter better. So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better. So 't was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.
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How much oil boil can a gum boil boil if a gum boil can boil oil?
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Good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood, good blood, bad blood.
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No nose knows like a gnome's nose knows.
by the Hofman family
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Freshly fried fresh flesh
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There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two, too.
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There once was a man who had a sister, his name was Mr. Fister. Mr. Fister's sister sold sea shells by the sea shore. Mr. Fister didn't sell sea shells, he sold silk sheets. Mr. Fister told his sister that he sold six silk sheets to six shieks. The sister of Mr. Fister said I sold six shells to six shieks too!
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Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. But if Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?
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She stood on the steps of Burgess's Fish Sauce Shop, mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.
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Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum swan!
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Sally is a sheet slitter, she slits sheets.
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She sells sea shells on the sea shore; The shells that she sells are sea shells I'm sure. So if she sells sea shells on the sea shore, I'm sure that the shells are sea shore shells.
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You know New York. You need New York. You know you need unique New York.
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What noise annoys an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
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Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
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Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.
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Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
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She slits the sheet she sits on.
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A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
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A twister of twists once twisted a twist. and the twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist. now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist, would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists?
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Red lolly, yellow lolly.
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Mrs. Hunt had a country cut front in the front of her country cut pettycoat.
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Knapsack strap.
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John, where Molly had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had " had had the teachers approval
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Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
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Great gray goats
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Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not. Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot. We'll weather the weather whether we like it or not.
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Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, …
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The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
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There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
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How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
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Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
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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.
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Clowns grow glowing crowns.
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Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
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Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers Such skill as sewing shirts Our shy young sister Suzie shows Some soldiers send epistles Say they'd rather sleep in thistles Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
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Red leather, yellow leather, …
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IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = ELSE ELSE ELSE = IF;
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Hard for PL/I compilers to understand. The key to understanding this is that there is no lexical distinction between keywords (IF, THEN, and ELSE) and variables, which can also be IF, THEN, and ELSE. Likewise, there is no lexical distinction between testing for equality ('=') and assignment ('='). So, this means: If the variable IF is equal to the variable THEN, assign the variable ELSE to the variable THEN, otherwise, assign the variable IF to the variable ELSE. As with many tongue twisters in natural languages, this is NOT good style.469
programming language PL/I by Bruce Walker
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Announcement at Victoria Station, London: Two to two to Tooting too!
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Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.
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Rugged rubber baby buggy bumpers.
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A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.
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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?
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What to do to die today at a minute or two to two. A terribly difficult thing to say and a harder thing to do. A dragon will come and beat his drum Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-too at a minute or two to two today. At a minute or two to two.
Who is the author?
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If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
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The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
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She sees seas slapping shores.
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A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.
by Ray Weisling
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Greek grapes.
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Mr. See owned a saw and Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.
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Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.
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There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.
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A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.
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Don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you! If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles you!
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Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
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Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section, …
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A smart fella, a fella smart. It takes a smart fella to say a fella smart.
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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.
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Admidst the mists and coldest frosts, With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, He thrusts his fists against the posts, And still insists he sees the ghosts.
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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?
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Blue glue gun, green glue gun.
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Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, …
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Mallory's hourly salary.
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I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.
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Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.
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A flea and a fly in a flue, were imprisoned. So what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee". Said the flea, "Let us fly". So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb. A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb. If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb, How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
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Five fat friars frying flat fish.
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The bottle of perfume that Willy sent was highly displeasing to Millicent. Her thanks were so cold that they quarreled, I'm told o'er that silly scent Willy sent Millicent
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Esau Wood sawed wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. All the wood Wood saw, Esau sought to saw. One day Esau Wood's wood-saw would saw no wood. So Esau Wood sought a new wood-saw. The new wood-saw would saw wood. Oh, the wood Esau Wood would saw. Esau sought a saw that would saw wood as no other wood-saw would saw. And Esau found a saw that would saw as no other wood-saw would saw. And Esau Wood sawed wood.
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A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
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Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts.
by Pierre Abbat
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Sweater weather, leather weather.
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One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.
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I am not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate. I am only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.
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Ed 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, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?
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We will learn why her lowly lone, worn yarn loom will rarely earn immoral money.
by Ray Weisling
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Unique New York, unique New York, unique New York, …
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If Dr. Seuss Were a Technical Writer..... Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say: If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash! You can't say this? What a shame, sir! We'll find you another game, sir. If the label on the cable on the table at your house, Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'Cause as sure
from the Unix fortune database, attributed to [email protected] in the rec.humor.funny newsgroup
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Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter. Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick.
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Ray Rag ran across a rough road. Across a rough road Ray Rag ran. Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?
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Elmer Arnold
personal name
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A Tudor 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?"
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Mrs. Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt. Not a punt cut square, Just a square cut punt. It's round in the stern and blunt in the front. Mrs. Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt.
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Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.
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Thin sticks, thick bricks
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Red lorry, yellow lorry.
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A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck how much a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood.
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Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.
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Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.
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A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest.
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I thought a thought. But the thought I thought Wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought, Had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought I thought.
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She sells sea shells on the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.
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From the programmer's desk: She sells cshs by the C shore.
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A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more!
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Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.
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Slick slim slippers sliding south.
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The Leith police dismisseth us They thought we sought to stay; The Leith police dismisseth us They thought we'd stay all day. The Leith police dismisseth us, We both sighed sighs apiece; And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye Were the size of the Leith police.
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Ah shucks, six stick shifts stuck shut!
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Meter maid Mary married manly Matthew Marcus Mayo, a moody male mailman moving mostly metered mail.
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The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
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How much dough would Bob Dole dole if Bob Dole could dole dough? Bob Dole would dole as much dough as Bob Dole could dole, if Bob Dole could dole dough.
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People pledging plenty of pennies.
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Mares eat oats and does eat oats, but little lambs eat ivy.
from a pre-war English music-hall song
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To begin to toboggan, first buy a toboggan. But don't buy too big a toboggan. Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
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Courtney Dworkin
personal name
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Switch watch, wrist watch.
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Six thick thistle sticks
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Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.
Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in "Singing in the rain""
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I wish I were what I was when I wished I were what I am.
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She sells seashells on the seashore. The seashells she sells are seashore seashells.
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Irish wristwatch
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She had shoulder surgery.
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To put a pipe in byte mode, type PIPE_TYPE_BYTE.
from the Visual C++ help file.
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Three Tree Turtles
Three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters. If three tree turtles took turns talking tongue twisters, where's the twisters the three tree turtles talked?"
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My Friend Gladys 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!
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I would if I could, and if I couldn't, how could I? You couldn't, unless you could, could you?
common school kids nonsense, circa 1910
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real rear wheel
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Give me the gift of a grip-top sock, A clip drape shipshape tip top sock. Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock, But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock. None of your fantastic slack swap slop From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop. Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock. Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock, Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block. Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.
articulation warmup for actors
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National Sheepshire Sheep Association
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The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver.
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The little red lorry went down Limuru road.
Limuru (Lee-moo-roo) road is a the name of a road in Kenya.
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Flies fly but a fly flies.
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Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig Doug's garden?
by Paul Davies
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If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot tot be taught to say ought or naught or what ought to be taught 'er?
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How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.
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Federal Express is now called FedEx. When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex. But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec. Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex. If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec. When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.
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Which witch snitched the stitched switch for which the Swiss witch wished?
by Ann Clark
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Does this shop sport short socks with spots?
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Customer: Do you have soothers? Shopkeeper (thinking he had said "scissors"): No, we don't have scissors. Customer: Soothers! Shopkeeper : No, we don't have scissors or soothers. ... scissors or soothers, scissors or soothers, scissors or soothers, …
actual conversation in a shop in Canada, recorded by Don Monson
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Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop. All day long he fits and tucks, all day long he tucks and fits, and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits, and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits. Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
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No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.
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I wish to wish, I dream to dream, I try to try, and I live to live, and I'd die to die, and I cry to cry but I dont know why.
from a Song by Soundgarden named "Somewhere" composed and written by Ben Shepherd"
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My mommy makes me muffins on Mondays.
by Tim McCauley, age 8
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A real rare whale.
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Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn't teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.
by Pierre Abbat
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Ken Dodd's dad's dog 's dead.
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I bought a bit of baking powder and baked a batch of biscuits. I brought a big basket of biscuits back to the bakery and baked a basket of big biscuits. Then I took the big basket of biscuits and the basket of big biscuits and mixed the big biscuits with the basket of biscuits that was next to the big basket and put a bunch of biscuits from the basket into a biscuit mixer and brought the basket of biscuits and the box of mixed biscuits and the biscuit mixer to the bakery and opened a tin of sardines.
Said to be a diction test for would-be radio announcers: To be read clearly, without mistakes, in less than 20 seconds (from Coronet Magazine, August 1948).
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Kanta is a masai girl. She can tie a tie and untie a tie. If Kanta can tie a tie and untie a tie, why can't I tie a tie and untie a tie?
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I'm a mother pheasant plucker, I pluck mother pheasants. I'm the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker, to ever pluck a mother pheasant. Actually, ... I'm Not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son. But I'll stay and pluck the pheasants Till the pheasant plucking 's done!
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If you go for a gopher a gopher will go for a gopher hole.
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Seven slick and sexy sealskin ski suits slid slowly down the slope.
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The chief of the Leith police dismisseth us.
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Fred Threlfall's thirty-five fine threads are finer threads than Fred Threlfall's thirty-five thick threads.
by Anthony Nichols
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Bug's black blood, Black bug's blood
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Reed Wade Road
name of a road in Batesville Arkansas
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Jack's nap sack strap snapped.
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I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw. I saw Esau; he saw me.
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A quick witted cricket critic.
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Hitchcock Hawk Watch Spots Record Raptors
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Title of an article in the Neola Gazette
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Sure, sir, the ship's sure shipshape, sir.
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The Smothers brothers' father's mother's brothers are the Smothers brothers' mother's father's other brothers.
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One Double Dozen Double Damask Dinner Napkins
Name of a sketch written by Dion Titheradge for a London musical revue and originally performed by Cicely Courtneidge in the early 1930's. The comedienne Bea Lillie performed the sketch in an American film starring Bing Crosby in 1938, and that film's name was "Doctor Rhythm". The sketch became famous and Lillie did perform it on numerous occasions on radio, as well as record it on two 78rpm records."
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The cat crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out.
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Dear mother, give your other udder to my other brother.
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Blended baby blue bug's blood blotches.
made up watching bugs splatter on the windshield ... ugh!
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So, this is the sushi chef?
Spoken to a friend in a Japanese restaurant on the chef’s return.
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Furnish Freddie's nursery with forty-four furry Furby Beanie Babies.
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Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Palmer, …
name of the famous American golfer
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A bitter biting bittern bit a better biting bittern And the better biting bittern bit the bitter biting bittern back. Said the bitter biting bittern to the better biting bittern "I'm a bitter biting bittern bitten back"
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Certified certificates from certified certificate certifiers.
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Imagine, imagining imagining, an imaginary imaginary imaginary menagerie manager, imagining imagining imagining an imaginary imaginary imaginary managerie.
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What noise annoys a noisy oyster? Any noise annoys a noisy oyster, but a noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster most!
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We need a plan to fan a pan; find a pan to fan, then find a fan to fan the pan, then fan the pan.
Some Korean students find difficult to pronounce difference between 'f' and 'p'.
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How many snacks could a snack stacker stack, if a snack stacker snacked stacked snacks?
by Christine Reynolds
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Freddy is ready to roast red roaches. Ready for Freddy's roasted red roaches?
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Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear when Washington's washer-woman went west?
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On mules we find two legs behind and two we find before. We stand behind before we find what those behind be for.
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Three grey geese In a green field grazing, Grey were the geese And green was the grazing.
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Susie sits shinning silver shoes
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Ralph rakes leaves really, really lousily.
for Japanese students of English
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Lady Luck dislikes losers.
for Japanese students of English
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Broken back brake block
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Mumbling, bumbling. Bumbling, mumbling.
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Of all the felt I ever felt I never felt felt that felt like that felt felt.
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They hatch fish at the state fish hatchery and sell hatched fish to the fish stick factory.
by Kevin Brown
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In pine tar is. In oak none is. In mud eels are. In clay none is.
If read fast, it sounds like gibberish.
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The sixth sick sheik's sixth sick sheep.
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Thirty-six thick silk threads
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Silly shoe-fly pie fans sell chilly shoe-fly pie pans.
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Kantai can tie a tie. If Kantai can tie a tie, why can't I tie a tie like Kantai can tie a tie.
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The two-toed tree toad tried to tread where the three-toed tree toad trod.
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Tricky Tristan tracked a trail of tiny turtles. How many tiny turtles did Tricky Tristan track? Tricky Tristan tracked twenty two tiny turtles; that's how many tiny turtles tricky Tristan tracked.
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Esau Wood saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood. If Esau Wood saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood, where is the wood saw witch would saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood.
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You're behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons.
from Harry Potter
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Iranian Uranium
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Giddy kiddy goat, Giddy kiddy goat, Giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, kiddy goat.
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He wanted to desert his dessert in the desert!
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If a Hottentot tot taught a Hottentot tot to talk before the tot would totter, ought the Hottentot tot be taught to say ought, or naught, or what ought to be taught the Hottentot tot? If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot be taught by a Hottentot tutor, should the tutor get hot if the Hottentot tot hoots and toots at the Hottentot tutor?
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There was a writer called Wright, he taught his son to write Wright right: "It's not right to write Wright 'Rite', please try to write Wright right!"
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Very rare vagrant wader
a "vagrant wader" is a wading bird that is not typical to a particular region"
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Crash Quiche Course
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I broke a brickbat and a brickbat broke me.
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A wooden worm wouldn't be worthy of worship but would he if he wondered and worried about what he would be worthy of if he wasn't wooden?
by Samy Gosselin
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Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
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Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
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Farrell's features fabulous food 'n' fantastic fountain fantasies for frolicking, fun-filled festive families.
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Who holds Joe's nose when he blows? Joe knows.
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A singly circularly linked list.
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The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive Feeling footloose, fancy-free and frisky, this feather-brained fellow finagled his fond father into forking over his fortune. Forthwith, he fled for foreign fields and frittered his farthings feasting fabulously with fair-weather friends. Finally, fleeced by those folly filled fellows and facing famine, he found him-self a feed flinger in a filthy farm-lot. He fain would have filled his frame with foraged food from fodder fragments. "Fooey! My father's flunkies fare far fancier," the frazzled fugitive fumed feverishly, frankly facing fact. Frustrated from failure and filled with forebodings, he fled for his family. Falling at his father's feet, he floundered forlornly. "Father, I have flunked and fruitlessly forfeited further family favors . . ." But the faithful father, forestalling further flinching, frantically flagged his flunkies to fetch forth the finest fatling and fix a feast. But the fugitive's fault finding frater, faithfully farming his father's fields for f
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Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
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When I went to Warsaw, I saw a saw that could outsaw any saw that I ever saw. Now, if you go to Warsaw and see a saw that could outsaw the saw I saw, I'd like to see your saw saw.
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If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I'm perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
by Karen and Alyse Ferry
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Six Czech cricket critics
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Rubber Berber Gerber™ Burger
An ersatz North African taste treat …
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Lucid Lou slued loose the sluice that slew the slough.
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In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.
from My Fair Lady the musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
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Thomas Tattamus took two T's to tie two tots to two tall trees.
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Hercules, a hardy hunter, hunted a hare in the Hampshire Hills. Hit him on the head with a hard, hard hammer and he howled horribly!
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Frank's fisher fishes on Friday for Frank's Friday fresh fried fish-fest.
by Steven Combs
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I saw a saw in Warsaw. Of all the saws I ever saw I never saw a saw that could saw, like the saw I saw in Warsaw.
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Dick had a dog, the dog dug, the dog dug deep, how deep did Dick's dog dig? Dick had a duck, the duck dived, the duck dived deep, how deep did Dick's duck dive? Dick's duck dived as deep as Dick's dog dug!
by Alexandra Hunt (11 years old)
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It's a nice night for a white rice fight.
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If a fella met a fella in a field of fitches Can a fella tell a fella where a fella itches?
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I feel a feel a funny feel a funny feel feel I, If I feel a funny feel a funny feel feel I.
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Never trust a sloppy crust, a squally gust, ships that rust, or girls with lust. But if you must, you may trust to go bust, and back to dust, which serves you just.
on board of a Victory Ship in the 1940s
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A sad story about Nobody This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did, what Anybody could have done.
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Mr. Knott and Mr. Watt on the Phone Hello? Who's calling? Watt. What's your name? Watt's my name. Yes, what is your name? My name is John Watt. John what? Yes. ... I'll call on you this afternoon. All right, are you Jones? No, I'm Knott. Will you tell me your name, then? Will Knott. Why not? My name is Knott. Not what? Not Watt. Knott. What?
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Round brown bread
the Indian bread "Roti""
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Grip glue, grip glue, grip glue, ...
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Bob's pop-up blocker blocks Bob's pop-ups.
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Chill, Shake, Serve, …
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M. R. Ducks M.R. not Ducks O. S. M. R. L. I'll B. M. R. Ducks!
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How much cash could a sasquatch stash if a sasquatch could stash cash?
by Janet Cashman-Shipman and family
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A cunning young canner from Canning Once observed to his granny, "A canner can can a lot of things gran, But a canner can't can a can, can he?"
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How many ducks could a duck duct-tape, if a duck could duct-tape ducks?
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Bad dead bed-bugs bleed bug blood.
by Mimi Routh
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Upper roller, lower roller, upper roller, lower roller, upper roller, lower roller, …
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Bill had a billboard, Bill also had a board bill. The billboard bored Bill so Bill sold the billboard to pay for the board bill.
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Washington's wash woman washed Washington's wash while Washington's wife went west.
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Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth, …
by Monica Holmes-Lauder
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Deer, deer, oh dear, oh dear, your career as a deer is over here no, no, oh no, although your career as a skellytun's begun.
The Roadkill Song
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The sixth sick Sikh's sixth sheep is sick.
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Click, clap, pluck, …
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Mister Twister's tongue twisters, …
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Hum-min-a, Hum-min-a, Hum-min-a, …
sometimes said by Jackie Gleason in "The Honeymooners""
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Mud bug, mud bug, mud bug, …
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Polish it in the corner. Polish it in the corner. Polish it in the corner. …
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I gratefully gazed at the gracefully grazing gazelles.
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Really very weary, really very weary, really very weary, …
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The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.
variation of the famous tongue twister
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Thrushcross Grange
the name of the Linton's house in "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë"
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Six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons, …
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Sheila is selling her shop at the seashore For shops at the seashore are so sure to lose And she's not so sure of what she should be selling Should Sheila sell seashells or should she sell shoes
Danny Kaye song, arround 1930
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A canner exceedingly canny, One morning remarked to his granny, A canner can can, Anything that he can, But a canner can't can a can; can he?
© Win Ivin
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She sat upon a balcony, inimicably mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.
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I can't believe that "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" is actually a butter that I can't believe is not butter.
"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" is a butter substitute produced by Becel/Flora/Promise, a subsidiary of Unilever."
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You name it, we claim it. If we can't get it, we'll send you to get it. If we can't send you to get it, forgit it. Who's got it, if we don't got it?
from the 1960's
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If your Bob doesnt give our Bob that bob that your Bob owes our Bob, our Bob will give your Bob a bob in the eye.
V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
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V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. [carves V into poster on wall] V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [giggles] V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
from the screenplay of the movie "V for Vendetta", at the beginning, when V meets Evie for the first time"
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Chip shop chips
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Velvet Revolver Velvet Revolver Velvet Revolver …
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Shine my city shoes!
repeat really fast
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Sniff Sesh! Sniff Sesh! Sniff Sesh!
a dog sniffing a blanket
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The Knight said, "He's", with niceties, "some nights a tease or nice at ease on nice settees".
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How much snus could a moose on the loose use if a moose on the loose could use loose snus?
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Black Rock Brain Lock
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Which Witch snitched the Snitch Witch?
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Or did the Snitch Witch snitch the Witch? If the Snitch Witch snitched the Witch then which Witch did the Snitch Witch snitch?
by Emily Green
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A maid named Lady Marmalade made mainly lard and lemonade. M'lady lamely never made a well-named, labelled marmalade.
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Theodore Thistle threw three thorny thistles. How many thorny thistles did Theodore Thistle throw?
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Silly Sally Shouldnort shaved sheep she should show soon so selling sheep shaved showed she shouldn't show shaved sheep so soon.
by James Norton
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Cracker rapper, cracker rapper, cracker rapper, …
by Kazia Sarpola
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Lenny Lou leopard led leprechauns leaping like lemmings.
by Brian & Grace McKeon
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Loyal royal lawyer
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Darn dawn dog gone!
The sometimes annoying pet canine is not at home this morning.
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Free Ritz wristwatch. Try saying Ritz wristwatch 5 times fast!
from the back of a Ritz cracker box
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Six slick, slim, slender saplings.
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Tell a tall tale of a tall tailed dog, that told Tim it tap a tall ale and thump the top of Tim's tomb.
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Old lady Hunt had a cuzzy Funt not a cuzzy Funt but a Hunt Funt cuzzy.
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How much juice does a fruit juice producer produce when a fruit juice producer produces fruit juice? We can deduce a fruit juice produces as much juice as a fruit juice produce can seduce from the fruit that produces juice.
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They think that their teeth get thinner at times they want to taste thick meat.
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Three tired tigers try to throw three trees.
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I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
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Ken can ken that Ken's kin can ken Ken's kin's ken.
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The sixth shack's sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.
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Which Swiss witch switched the Swiss wristwatches?
by Marnie Singer
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Cook "Cookie" Turk took Kookie Kirk a turkey cookie.
by Marnie Singer
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How many tow trucks could a tow truck tow if a tow truck could tow tow trucks.
by Cheyenne Perry (age 10)
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I miss my Swiss miss. My Swiss miss misses me.
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Now the trees are all groaning in growling, rough gales That with thuds and hoarse roaring roll raging around! Such leaf-rousing, branch-ruining, ripping, raw wails, Such a terrible, thrashing and tree-wrecking sound!
by Mark Scrivener
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Slinking, sliding, slithering slyly, Swiftly slipping through the grasses shyly, Silent but for swish and hiss Is the sinuous snake's leglessness.
by Mark Scrivener
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Corythosaurus bit the gory esophagus of the dillapitated Dilophosaurus who lived in the sorest of forests with the whacky pachy-rinosaurus and the ceratosaurus, but the most poorest and mourish panoplosaurus called Wang sang and rang chorus with the lurdusaurus and the brachiosaurus who was dying of staphylococus-aureas.
by Henry Dyne and Georgie Warden
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How much squash could a sasquatch squish, if a sasquatch could squish squash?
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Fresh fish and fried prawns
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She thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of her thumb.
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It dawned on Don at dawn.
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A snake sneaks to seek a snack.
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A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
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Great Gate Crasher
From a personal experience at a friend's party …
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Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews, Some soldiers send epistles say they'd sooner sleep on thistles, Than those saucy soft short shirts for soldiers, Sister Susie sews.
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How many rats would the ruskies roast if the ruskies could roast rats? How many cats would a caddie catch if a caddie could catch cats?
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Rural ruler
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Swift shift
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An illusory vision is a visionary illusion. Is it?
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In shoulder surgery some surgeons sew soldiers' shoulders.
by a rehabilitation medical doctor
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Midget minute, midget minute, midget minute, …
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Willy's wooden whistle wouldn't whistle when Willy went wild.
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Wilson Winston winced whilst he minced a squinting prince.
co-written by Charles C. Canoll IV and Megan L. Luke
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If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
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I thought the haughty Professor Tortoise taught ontology, but the naughty Tortoise taught us tautology.
by Dachlan Cartwright
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Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash. If Grandma Gabby Grammer grabbed a gram of gummy goulash, How many grams of gummy goulash did Grandma Gabby Grammer grab?
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He thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts."
from "It" by Stephen King submitted by Ted Scheck"
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Thrifty Theophilus, the theocratic thistle sifter, thrice thrust three thousand thistles through the slick thick of his softly throbbing thumb.
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What's a synonym for cinnamon or is cinnamon synonym-less?
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Dimensional analysis
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Friskies frisbee
My friend got a frisbee with the "Friskies"-logo on it"
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Hulk Hawk is hulking the hawk, Hawk Hulk is hawking Hulk ... Hawk hugs the hedgehog
by Alexander from Russian (10 years old)
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Rather Ruth's writhings than Roth's wrath.
by David Philips
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The third time the three three-toed tree toads tried tying their toes together, the third three-toed tree toad tied the two three-toed tree toads toes to the third toads toes. Then the two tied three-toed tree toads told the third three-toed tree toad that tying their toes together thrilled them to their toe tips.
from a high school English class many years ago
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Darla's dollars
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I see he sees high seas she sees.
Minsea and Youngsea made this together in their English class
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I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
My back black brake blocks are broken.
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Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed Shilly-shallied south. These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack; Sheep should sleep in a shed.
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Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts.
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Eve eating eagerly elegant Easter eggs.
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Quizzical quiz, kiss me quick.
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Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly-impractical instruments.
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These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
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I shot a hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum because if I used leaden ones his hide would surely flatten them.
A spit warmup for singers, to encourage spit production *before* a performace so the singer doesn't spit on the audience!
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Normal word order or inverted word order?
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Peter Rabbit raddish robber
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There's a cross on the muzzle Of the pistol with the bullet But a nick on the handle Of the pistol with the blank.
"Never Say Die" (1939) with Bob Hope"
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The pellet with the poison's In the vessel with the pestle The chalice from the palace Has the brew that is true." later switched to: "The pellet with the poison's In the flagon with the dragon The vessel with the pestle Has the brew that is true
"The Court Jester" (1955) with Danny Kaye"
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The Doge did what a Doge does, when a Doge does his duty to a Duke, that is. When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn't, that's when the Duchess did the dirt to the Duke with the Doge. There they were in the dark: The Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dug at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke.
"The Court Jester" (1955) with Danny Kaye"
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Everybody's heard of Peter Piper And the peck of pickled peppers that he picked That's such a silly simple children's game It hasn't even got a name But I'd like to bet that it'll trip you And I bet you're gonna have to say you're licked If Peter Piper you pronounce with ease Then twist your tongue around these Moses supposes his toeses are roses But Moses supposes erroneously For Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses As Moses supposes his toeses to be That's tongue twisters And it seems so easy till the word gets sprung If you insist you want to try a lisp Then step up mister and twist your tongue Now Kissle will whistle at busty Miss. Russell Who'll rustle and bustle till Kissle will roar So Russell asked Axle for Kissle's dismissal And this'll teach Kissle to whistle no more That's tongue twisters And it seems so easy till you twist your tongue Tito and Tato were tattooed in total But Toto was only tattooed on his toe So Tato told Tito where Toto was tattooed But Tito said Toto's tattoo wouldn
"Tongue Twisters" performed by Danny Kaye"
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Colliding, colt riding cowboys, combining colliding while gliding at night coinciding in their fight. It wasn't quite trite even with slight sight, who was right? The fight like light, flashed bright, fast as bears bite flies flying near the bears eyes the fleeing flies die.
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Green and brown blades of grass
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Broken blue crayon
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Four poor fools filled four pools full.
by Bill Buker
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Sleep sweetly! Sleep sweetly! Sleep sweetly!
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The Professor Peter Peckinpah all purpose anti-personnel Peckinpah pocket pistol under the toupee trick
from the series "Get Smart" (1965) in the episode "Smartucus""
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Pro bono boa prose
Purple paper people, purple paper people, purple paper people, …
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De doorgaans dappere Durgerdammer drukker Dirk Doordraver die driemaal daags drieduims dikke dictionaires drukte doch door de dagelijkse druk dermate depressief doordraaide dat Dirk daaraan denkend daardoor dieptreurig de donkergrijze deur der drukkerij denderend dicht donderde. Dirk's drie dikke domme dochters dachten dat depressieve Dirk dagelijks drie deciliter drabbig dikke donkere druivensap dronk.
Twee zinnen met 53 woorden beginnend met "D"."
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Shannon shant ship ships through Shilshole.
Shilshole is a place in Seattle
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If blue bugs bleed blue blood, and black bugs bleed black blood, do blue-black bugs bleed blue-black blood?
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Carolina Herrera resides in the rural area with her running horses.
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How many bears could Bear Grills grill if Bear grills could grill bears?
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The children eat the chicken in the kitchen.
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Cheap Sheep Sheets, Cheap Sheep Sheets, Cheap Sheep Sheets.
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The greedy Greek geek agreed.
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Frozen Floyd flicks fat fleas for a fixed flat fee.
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Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
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An inchworm inches on ivy that itches.
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Nope, an antelope can't elope with a cantelope.
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"Two tried" and "True tied"
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Three free fleas flew freely through the flu.
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The CEO's colleagues trusted those successful clients although their results weren't less than lumpy!
tough for Japanese speakers
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Jean Claude Jaquettie, with his jacket on. Jean Claude Jaquettie, with his jacket off. Jean Claude Jaquettie, with his jacket on. Jean Claude Jaquettie, with his jacket off. Jacket on, Jacket off, Jacket on, Jacket off.
from "The Mighty Boosh" (2004) with Julian Barratt und Noel Fielding"
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Burger burglar
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Quick queens quack quick quacks quicker than quacking quails.
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How many wenches could a witch's wench wrench wrench if a witch's wench wrench could wrench wenches. As many wenches as a witch's wench wrench could, if a witch's wench wrench could wrench wenches.
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Washing the washing machine while watching the washing machine washing washing.
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Plaid pleated pants, Plaid pleated pants, Plaid pleated pants, …
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Drunk drugged ducks, Drunk drugged ducks, Drunk drugged ducks, …
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She snapped a selfie with Sophie's silver cell phone.
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She surely suits shiny sleek short skirts.
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Tell Tom the ticket taker to take the ticket to the ticket wicket.
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How many pounds in a groundhog's mound when a groundhog pounds hog mounds?
Siri said this when asked "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.""
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A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.
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Labradoodle, labradoodle, labradoodle, …
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Yelling yellow Yeti.
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