Tongue Twisters~Post yours here

[tickle_fan031]

ok post your tongue twisters here....

Here's my fave

I'm not a pheasant plucker im a pheasant pluckers son and I only pluck the pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes.😀

 

[Cbarton]

Here's my fave:

Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butter's bitter
If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter
So Betty Botter bought some better butter
Better than the bitter butter
and she put it in the batter and the batter was not bitter
And that's why Betty's batter was not bitter from the bit of bitter butter!

and FYI...we have the Dr. Seuss's Fox in Sock and Oh Say Can You Say? books which are full of many good tang tunglers....

 

[GaryGoafer]

Red lorry Yellow lorry Red lorry Yellow lorry Red lorry Yellow lorry Red lorry Yellow lorry Red lorry Yellow lorry Red lorry Yellow lorry Red lorry Yellow lorry

The simplest ones are always the worst.

 

[Low_Roads]

Here's one I've never had any luck saying fast:

The sixth Shiek's sixth sheep's sick.

 

[Kalamos]

The sixth Shiek's sixth sheep's sick.

Managed to, but I can't pronounce "th" anyway, so it sounded more like: "de sixt shiek's sixt sheep's sick".

 

[Low_Roads]

Managed to, but I can't pronounce "th" anyway, so it sounded more like: "de sixt shiek's sixt sheep's sick".

Right. You have to get your tongue off your teeth, for the "th", and lay it flat for the "sh", which is almost impossible to do with any speed. As I recall, this phrase was concocted by some sort of speech therapist, who understood the art of juxtiposing syllables (which may or many not be true, but it is a good story!)

 

[Kalamos]

Right. You have to get your tongue off your teeth, for the "th", and lay it flat for the "sh", which is almost impossible to do with any speed.

Yeah, which is double trouble for me, since Italian has no "th" sounds.

Italian is great for spelling, though, since we got one of those langs were letters, unlike English, are always said the same way.
We don't have those lang traps, like "prophecy, prophecise, fantasise, fantasize" and so on.

In a way, we can first spell words as if they were Italian, then translate them back to English.

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Ok, now, I'm rambling, but you get the picture.

😀

 

[Low_Roads]

No "th" sound in Italian... I didn't know that. Another piece of interesting information to squirrel away! Unless, of course, I try to learn the language, then it's vital information!

As you intimate, English spelling is pretty scrambled: dozens of alternate spellings for vowel sounds, silent "e"s, consonants you have to combine for a single sound, awkward compounds... no wonder errors are so common!

 

[Kalamos]

No "th" sound in Italian... I didn't know that. Another piece of interesting information to squirrel away!

Eh, something to be taken into account, since most Italians have a tough time when asking for a "sheath" for a knife, or a "sheet" of paper...

Unless, of course, I try to learn the language, then it's vital information!

Italian is often confused with Spanish, but it is actually less rhythmical and less musical.
Some dialects are, but it is being spoken with much less emphasis than Spanish is.

They do have something akin to "*h" sounds, though.
Italian lost most of them. No "ph", "th", "dh", "rh" and so on.
We're good on weird wovel sounds, though. Some dialect do employ them.
Mine, for instance.
There is a world of difference between "coeur", "cò" and "cù/cue", one being "heart", the other "head", and the last meaning, er... "arse".

As you intimate, English spelling is pretty scrambled: dozens of alternate spellings for vowel sounds, silent "e"s, consonants you have to combine for a single sound, awkward compounds... no wonder errors are so common!

I blame it on Sir William Caxton anyway.

😉

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And keep in mind, a naddre is still a naddre.

😀

 

[Low_Roads]

Had to look of William Caxton. Since I've read most of Le Morte d'Arthur, the name should already have been familiar (I guess from a cultural literacy standpoint, I should have known who he was regardless). Thank god for mass publication... it may not have made spelling and grammar cleaner, but at least it does standardize it (so that we're all making the same mistake, rather than millions of different mistakes).

Naddre... another new one! If it'd been a snake, it would'a bit me! My personal favorite comes from Thomas Mallory: bratchet. Something rather unwholesome-sounding about that word. And Arthur and his boys always seem to be following one around. No wonder Camelot didn't last!