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Tongue Twisters

Just for Fun: Tongue Twisters For the most laughs, read these as fast as you can without first rehearsing them in your mind.

15. Ed had edited it. 16. Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks. 17. I slit the sheet, and on the slitted sheet I sit. 18. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 19. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym. 20. He threw three free throws.

1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 2. Fresh fried fish. 3. Eleven benevolent elephants. 4. Swill wristwatch. 5. Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward. 6. Truly rural. 7. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks. 8. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter’s bitter. 9. Rural juror. 10. Crisp crusts crackle crunchily. 11. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch? 12. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick. 13. She sells seashells by the seashore. 14. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

Submitted by Jim Surmanek

August 2026 5

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