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apprentice
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:44 pm
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What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
Paweł
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Tony Mountifield
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:44 pm
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In article <dda7rh$oni$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>,
Nick Wagg <naw@transcendata.com> wrote:
| Quote: | "apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:8c088$42f8973c$540aa681$15698@news.chello.pl...
What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Red leather, yellow leather.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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.... A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
| Quote: | If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
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.... The shells that she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.
The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.
Imagine an imaginary manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.
Cheers
Tony
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:33 pm
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"apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
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| Quote: | What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
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Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Red leather, yellow leather.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
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Paul Burke
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:41 pm
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apprentice wrote:
| Quote: | What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
Not so much a tongue- twister as a way of saying 'naughty' words and |
getting away with it:
I ran a bug
Around a tub
I'll have his blood,
He knows I will.
And of course:
Piter Peper pecked a pick of peckled pippers,
A pick of peckled pippers Piter Peper pecked.
If Piter Peper pecked a pick of peckled pippers,
Where's the pick of peckled pippers Piter Peper pecked?
Just as hard as getting it right!
This one was the basis of a family story, involving the notorious
drunkenness of my great-grandfather:
The Leith police dismisseth us.
Paul Burke |
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Jim
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:08 pm
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Paul Burke wrote...
| Quote: | apprentice wrote:
What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native
speaker knows for 100%?
Not so much a tongue- twister as a way of saying 'naughty' words and
getting away with it:
I ran a bug
Around a tub
I'll have his blood,
He knows I will.
And of course:
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I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:45 pm
Post subject: Re: Tongue twisters |
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At 13:48:57 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Tony Mountifield
<tony@softins.clara.co.uk> wrote in <ddac89$9vb$1@softins.clara.co.uk>:
| Quote: | In article <dda7rh$oni$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>,
Nick Wagg <naw@transcendata.com> wrote:
"apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:8c088$42f8973c$540aa681$15698@news.chello.pl...
What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Red leather, yellow leather.
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?
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
... The shells that she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.
The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.
Imagine an imaginary manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.
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Still the sinking steamer sank.
Peggy Babcock.
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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Ivan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:29 am
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apprentice wrote:
| Quote: | What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
Paweł
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Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat.... |
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:24 am
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:08:17 UTC, Jim <me@privacy.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Paul Burke wrote...
apprentice wrote:
What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native
speaker knows for 100%?
Not so much a tongue- twister as a way of saying 'naughty' words and
getting away with it:
I ran a bug
Around a tub
I'll have his blood,
He knows I will.
And of course:
I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm
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The way I heard it was:
I'm not a fig plucker, I'm an fig plucker's son
And I'll pluck figs till the fig plucker comes.
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Best,
Erick Andrews
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:27 am
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:44:45 UTC, "apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote:
| Quote: | What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
Paweł
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May not so much a toungue twister, but surely a mind twister:
A tooter who taught on the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tutors to toot?
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Erick Andrews
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:29 am
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At 21:24:12 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net>
wrote in <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-Dw5jGiXxznBB@HAL9000>:
| Quote: | On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:08:17 UTC, Jim <me@privacy.net> wrote:
I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm
The way I heard it was:
I'm not a fig plucker, I'm an fig plucker's son
And I'll pluck figs till the fig plucker comes.
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But what's a plig?
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deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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Einde O'Callaghan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:25 am
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apprentice wrote:
| Quote: | What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
This is one I've always particularly liked : |
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.
You'll find it along with hundreds of other tongue twisters at:
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan |
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:57 am
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:29:04 UTC, Molly Mockford <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | At 21:24:12 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net
wrote in <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-Dw5jGiXxznBB@HAL9000>:
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:08:17 UTC, Jim <me@privacy.net> wrote:
I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mentor01/song.htm
The way I heard it was:
I'm not a fig plucker, I'm an fig plucker's son
And I'll pluck figs till the fig plucker comes.
But what's a plig?
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Maybe a bastard Spoonerplism?
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Erick Andrews
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:14 am
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 23:25:31 UTC, Einde O'Callaghan <einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de> wrote:
| Quote: | apprentice wrote:
What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker
knows for 100%?
This is one I've always particularly liked :
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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So, as Ms Mockford might ask, elsewhere, would that be a
"phucking pleasant"? Maybe a "phlucking peasant"? <g>
Funny site. Perhaps not Spoonerisms. I always liked him saying
(in truth, I've read), at a university toast:
"Let us glaze our asses to our queer dean".
Onomatapoetic, I guess.
| Quote: | Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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Erick Andrews
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Martin GUY
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:05 am
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| Thirty-six sticky thick thistle sticks |
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