English Tongue Twisters: Improve Pronunciation and Have Fun

English tongue twisters

• Ape cakes, grapes cakes.
• Andrea and Andrew ate eight acid apples accidentally.
• If I assist a sister’s assistant, will the sister’s sister assistant assist? me?
• Can an active actor always actually act accurately?
• Ann Anteater ate Andy Alligator’s apples, so angry Andy Alligator ate Ann Anteater’s ants.

• Blake, the baker bakes black bread.
• The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
• Billy’s big black-and-blue blister bled.
• Blair’s blue boots are beauties.
• Bob bought a bleached, blue-beaded blazer.

• Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
• New cheese, blue cheese, chew cheese, please.
• A chapped chap chopped chips.
• A cheeky chimp chucked cheap chocolate chips in the cheap chocolate chip shop.
• Crisp crust crackles.

• Does double bubble gum bubble bubble?
• A dozen dim ding-dongs.
• Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn.
• How much dew could a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop dew?
• Daddy does not dig different dances!

• Eleven elves.
• Eight eager eagles ogled old Edgar.
• Edgar, at eight, ate eight eggs a day.
• Ere her ear hears her err, her ears err here. (“Ere” is old English for “before”. It is pronounced like the word “air”.)
• Elegant elephants!

• Freckle-faced Freddie fidgets.
• The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat.
• Francis fries fresh fish fillets.
• Flat-flying fish fly faster than flat-flying fleas.
• Fran feeds fish fresh fish food.

• Greek grapes.
• Granny’s grey goose goes last.
• The glum groom grew glummer.
• Great grey geese graze gaily daily.
• Gale’s great glass globe glows green.

• Horrible Heidi hears hairy Horace holler.
• Heed the head henpecker!
• How hollow Helen Hull hobbles on hills!
• Hiccup teacup!
• Harry the hungry hippo is happily eating ham in his house.

• Kick Kip, keep Kip’s kin.
• Lead lid, lead the led deal.
• Fix Mike’s kite, and feed Meg’s hen.
• Pick six beaks and seek big peeks.
• Mick’s men met Mike’s team.

• James jostled Jean while Jean jostled Joan.
• A gentle judge judges justly.
• James jostled Jean while Jean jostled Joan.
• Jean, Joan, George and Gerald judged generally.
• John Johnson joined jealous Jenny Jerry in making apple-jelly.

• Kinky kite kits. Kinky kite kits. Kinky kite kits.
• A knapsack strap. A knapsack strap. A knapsack strap.
• Kick six sticks quickly.
• Kitten in the kitchen.
• Kiss her quickly!

• Let lame lambs live.
• Larry sent the latter a letter later.
• Literary.
• Lump of red leather. A red leather lump.
• Lemon lime liniment.

• Missing mixture measure.
• Much mashed mushrooms.
• The minx mixed a medicine mixture.
• Mummies munch much mush; Monsters munch much mush; Many mummies and monsters Must munch much corn.
• Might Mike makes marvellous munchies for Mary, Mitch and me?

• Nick knits Nixon’s knickers.
• Ninety-nine knitted ninety-nine knitted knick-nack nickers nicked knick-nacks.
• Nine nimble noblemen nibbled nuts.
• Nine nice night nymphs.
• Never notice the nine canines near noon.

• The octopus and Oliver went to the opera in October.
• Awful old Ollie oils oily autos.
• Omit the stone oval at home in the zone.
• Clones on the phone own drones.
• The coat from the coast cost more than the most.

• Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter.
• Paul, please pause for proper applause.
• Please prune plum trees promptly.
• Picky pickpockets pick picked pockets.
• Please prepare the paired pared pears near the unprepared pears near the pool.

• The quack quit asking quick questions.
• The queen coined quick clipped quips.
• Quickest kiss.
• Quails quoted a quandry quickly quarrel qualities.

• Reading Bells ring rapidly and reeds rustle round rivers.
• A lump of red lead.
• Rex wrecks wet rocks.
• Raise Ruth’s red roof.
• Red lorry, yellow lorry.

• She sells seashells by the seashore.
• Seven slick, slimy snakes sliding slowly southward.
• Susie’s shirt shop sells preshrunk shirts.
• The sad soldier should shoot soon.
• Sixty-six sick six-shooters.

• They threw three thick things.
• Three Scotch thistles in the thicket.
• Thrash the thickset thug!
• Tacky tractor trailer trucks.
• Truly rural.

• Unique New York!
• The U. S. twin-screw cruiser.
• An undertaker undertook to undertake an undertaking. The undertaking that the undertaker undertook was the hardest undertaking the undertaker ever undertook to undertake.
• Underneath uncle Umby’s umbrella is uncle Umby’s ugly unicorn hat!
• Urgent detergent!

• Valuable valley villas.
• Victor’s friend Vincent rinsed his vests in vinegar.
• Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
• Violet is very vivacious.
• The view over Dover is overly vivid.

• Warm, whispering winds fill woodland waves.
• Wee Willy Winkie went walking in the wet wood.
• The wild wind whipped Whit from the wharf.
• Wilson whittles well-whittled wood whittle by whittle.
• Wally Winkle wriggles his white, wrinkled wig

• X-mas wrecks perplex and vex.
• X-ray checks clear chests.
• Ex-egg examiner.
• Xander examines xylophones while xeroxing x-rays.

• Yanking yellow yo-yos.
• Young Yolanda Yates loves yellow yoyos, yogurt and yummy yams.
• You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York.
• You’re yacking and yawning and unusually annoying.
• Yell for yellow yoyos.

• Zizzi’s zippy zipper zips.
• Zithers slither slowly south.
• Zachary’s zenith zones on the zodiac and zen.