This document contains tongue twisters in various languages with 3 main sections - definitions, types of tongue twisters, and examples of tongue twisters categorized by initial letter from A to Z. It defines tongue twisters as phrases that are difficult to articulate properly and lists the most common types as repetitive phrases, sentences, and chronological narratives. Examples provided span from single words and phrases to longer sentences designed to be challenging to pronounce fluently.

1. TONGUE
TWISTER

2. 1.Apa ?
2.Kenapa?

3. THE DEFINITION
Secara harfiah, tongue twister ke
bahasa Indonesia akan diartikan
sebagai pembelit lidah.

4. “A phrase that designed to be
difficult to articulate properly”

5. Types of Tongue Twister
1. repetitive (pengulangan)
this model usually consists of several words
that become phrases or a short clause
e.g.
• World Wide Web
• Eleven benevolent elephants
• Babbling bumbling band of the baboons

6. 2. Sentences model
e.g.
• A big black bug bit a big black dog on his
big black nose!
• I saw Susie and Susan sitting in a
shoeshine shop
• Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with
picks and sticks.

7. 3. Chronological narrative
Because of its long sentence form, therefore it can be called
a chronological narrative.
When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. You can write
good and copyright but copyright doesn’t mean copy good – it might not be right
good copy, right?
Now, writers of religious services write rite, and thus have the right to copyright the
rite they write. Conservatives write right copy, and have the right to copyright the
right copy they write. A right wing cleric might write right rite, and have the right to
copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His editor has the job of making
the right rite copy right before the copyright would be right. Then it might be copy
good copyright.
Should Thom Wright decide to write, then Wright might write right rite, which Wright
has a right to copyright. Copying that rite would copy Wright’s right rite, and thus
violate copyright, so Wright would have the legal right to right the wrong. Right?
Legals write writs which is a right or not write writs right but all writs, copied or not,
are writs that are copyright. Judges make writers write writs right. Advertisers write
copy which is copyright the copy writer’s company, not the right of the writer to
copyright. Wrongfully copying a right writ, a right rite or copy is not right.

8. Alice asks for axes.
"What ails Alex?" asks Alice.
Ape cakes, grape cakes. pancakes
Andrea and Andrew ate eight acid apples
accidentally
Ann Anteater ate Andy Alligator's apples,
so angry Andy Alligator ate Ann
Anteater's ants.
Can an active actor always actually act
accurately?
A

9. Betty Botta bought some butter;
'But,' said she, 'this butter's bitter!
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit o' better butter
Will but make my batter better.‘
Better than the bitter butter,Made her
bitter batter better.
So who’s better Betty Botta
Bought a bit o' better butter.
B

10. Chester chooses chestnuts, cheddar
cheese with chewy chives. He chews
them and he chooses them. He chooses
them and he chews them. . . . those
chestnuts, cheddar cheese and chives in
cheery, charming chunks.
C

11. When a doctor gets sick and another
doctor doctors him, does the doctor doing
the doctoring have to doctor the doctor
the way the doctor being doctored wants
to be doctored, or does the doctor doing
the doctoring of the doctor doctor the
doctor as he wants to do the doctoring?
D

12. Eight eager eagles ogled old Edgar.
Edgar at eight ate eight eggs a day.
Here her ear hears her err, her ears are
here.
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
Eddie edited it.
Eleven benevolent elephants
Elizabeth's birthday is on the third
Thursday of this month.
E

13. For fine fresh fish, phone Phil.
Freaky-faced Freddie fidgets.
For French shrimp,
try a French shrimp shop.
The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat.
Five frantic frogs from fifty fierce fishes.
Try fat flat founders.
Frank on flaming fish at the famous Friday
fish fry.
Can a flying fish flee far
from a free fish fry?
F

14. Gus goes by Blue Goose bus.
Granny's gray goose goes last.
Great gray geese graze gaily daily.
Three gray green greedy geese,
Good gunsmoke, bad gunsmoke.
Good blood, bad blood.
Gale's great glass globe glows green.
The glum groom grew glummer.
Glum Gwendolyn's glasses.
G

15. Horrible Heidi hears hairy Horace holler.
High roller. Low roller.
How much hair could a hairnet net, If a
hairnet could net hair?
Where are the heavy hairy
hares Harry Hunt hunts?
If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot,
Or what ought to be taught her?
Should the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot hoots and toots
H

16. I scream you scream we are scream for
the ice creams
I see Ivy's icy eyes.
I sleep ships ice chips in ice chips ships.
i and you imagine an imaginary
menagerie manager imagining managing
an imaginary menagerie?
should i? am i? neither do i?
I

17. Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep.
John, where Molly had head "hide".
"Hide head" had had
the teachers just approval james
John just Judicial jails systems.
June sheep sleep soundly jokes.
Just think, that sphinx
has a jokes that jonks!
J

18. Kinky kite kits.
Nutty Knott was not in.
Knotting knots in netting.
Nutty Knott was out,
Were in Nutty Knott's knotty netting.
A knowly strap.
Keenly cleaning copper kettles.
Come kick six sticks quick.
Kiss her quickest!
King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in
the thistle of his thumb
K

19. Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler,
hurled a furry squirrel through
a curly grill.
Larry sent the latter a letter later.
Lesser weather never weathered lesser
wetter weather.
Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup.
Love's a feeling you feel when you feel
you're going to feel the feeling you
have never felt before.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
L

20. Many mummies and monsters
Must munch much mashed.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses;
But Moses supposes erroneously;
Miss Smith lisps as she talks and lists
as she walks.
I miss my Swiss Miss.
My Swiss Miss misses me.
The minx mixed a medicine mixture.
A missing mixture measure.
Much mashed mushrooms
M

21. Need Nott was shot and Sam Shott was
not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott
says he shot Nott. Either the shut Shoot
shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was
shot. If the shot Shoot shot shut Nott,
Nott was shot. But if the shut Shut shoot,
then Shoot was shut, not Nott. However,
the shoot shut shoot not Shott but Nott.
Nick knits Nixon's knickers.
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
N

22. Old oily allie oils old oily autos.
On a lazy laser raiser lies
a laser ray eraser.
On mules we find two legs behind and two we
find before.
On two thousand acres, Where thousands of
thorn trees grew thrifty and thrilling, Oliver Ogle
the owner ogled
an owl and oyster
O

23. Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked.
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked?
Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the
piper poked pepper at Peter.
P

24. The Quack Quit asking Quick Questions.
The Queen coined Quick clipped Quips.
Quick kiss. Quicker kiss. Quickest kiss.
Eartquake Quaker outs Quicker pour,
our Queen Queue our Quick liquid liquor
Q

25. Raise Ruth's red roof.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Rattle your bottles in Rollocks' van.
Ray Rag ran across a rough road. Across a
rough road Ray Rag ran. Where is the
rough road Ray Rag ran across?
Real rock wall, real rock wall, real rock wall
Real weird rear wheels
R

26. Sally is a sheet slitter, she slits sheets.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.The
shells she sells sure are sea shore shells,
For if she sells sea shore shells
as sea shells,
The shells she sells are sea shore shells.
She saw a shot-silk as the sunshine
shone on the side of the shot-silk sash.
S

27. What a to-do to die today at a minute
or two to two.
’This a thing distinctly hard to say,
and harder still to do.
For they will beat a tattoo at twenty-
to-two,
A rat-a-tat, tat-a-tat, tat-a-tat,
tat-a-tattoo,
And the dragon will come when he
hears the drum,
At a minute or two to two today,
at a minute or two to two.
T

28. An undertaker undertook to undertake
an undertaking.
The undertaking that the undertaker
undertook was the hardest undertaking
the undertaker ever undertook
to undertake.
Unique New York.
United States twin-screw steel cruisers.
Upper roller, lower roller
Urgent detergent!
The United States twin-screw cruiser.
U

29. A veil and a fly vlew up in a flue.
Said the vowel, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flour!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
What veteran ventriloquist whistles?
Valuble valley villas.
Very well, very well, very well
Vincent vowed vengeance very
vehemently.
V

30. How much wood could Chuck Woods’
woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods’
woodchuck could and would chuck wood?
woodchuck could and would chuck wood,
he would, as much as he could, and chuck
as much wood as any woodchuck would,
if a woodchuck could and would chuck
woods.
W

31. wrecks perplex and vex.
X-ray checks clear chests.
Ex-disk jockey. The ex-egg examiner.
Exit text excel exalt the exam
Elektric examiner exchange enchange
Equivalent and example end
The quicker exercise summary excel
The quacker particular to exit examiner
The sixth sick sheik's ship sheep
sixth sharks sheik’s x-ray
X

32. Yellow butter Yellow leather yellow feather
You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!
You know New York. You need New York.
You know you need unique New York.
You have no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
It is really not quite right To light nights
with their slight lights On a light night
like tonight Slight.
Y

33. This is Zithers slither slowly south.
Zizzi's zippy zipper zips.
Zealously zany zapping zebras
zigzag zested zoology zone
Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy wuzzy had
no hair. Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy,
was he?'
Z