English tongue twisters

What noise annoys an oyster most?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.

Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.

She slits the sheet she sits on.

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

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.

Red lolly, yellow lolly.

I am a mother pheasant plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
that ever plucked a mother pheasant!

Mrs Hunt had a country cut front
in the front of her country cut pettycoat.

Knapsack strap.

Where Molly had had "had had", "had had" had had the teacher's approval.

Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.

Great gray goats

Whenever the weather is cold.
Whenever the weather is hot.
We'll whether the weather,
whatever the weather,
whether we like it or not.

Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, ...

The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!

There's a sandwich on the sand, which was sent by a sane witch.

How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

One smart man, he felt smart.
Two smart men, they both felt smart.
Three smart men, they all felt smart.

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.

Clowns grow glowing crowns.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

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.

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?

Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

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 'twas better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

A box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.

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?

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!

She sees seas slapping shores.

Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.

Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.

There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.

She brews a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot.

She is a thistle sifter.
She has a seive of unsifted thistles
and a seive of sifted thistles and the seive of unsifted thistles
she sifts into the seive of sifted thistles because she is a thistle sifter.

Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.

Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next
spring.

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?

Five fat friars frying flat fish.

Betty bought some bitter butter
and it made her batter bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter
to make her bitter batter better.

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump thunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

I'm not the fig plucker,
nor the fig pluckers' son,
but I'll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.

The sixth sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.

One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.

The big black bug's blood ran blue.

Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?

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?"

A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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 so much.

She sells sea shells on the seashore.
The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.

Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.

Six stick shifts stuck shut.

The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.

People pledging plenty of pennies.

To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan.
But do not buy too big a toboggan!
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.

Switch watch, wrist watch.

Six thick thistle sticks.

Irish wristwatch