Tongue Twisters are helpful for the following purposes: • Speech therapy. • Pronunciation Improvement • To sound clear • To improve fluency • Speech Improvement • Accent Neutralization • Vocabulary Building Often used by actors, politicians, and public speakers to sound clear. You will learn the importance of Tongue Twisters in improvising your spoken efficiency. The techniques of practising it, have also given in the PPT.I have observed a prominent change in the speech quality who have practised Tongue Twisters. It is also a part of Soft Skills (KNC 201) syllabus, prescribed in AKTU. About the Author: An Educationalist, A Trainer, and A Passionate Facilitator, Dr Garima Williams. She is into Training and Development for 17 years. She trains Students (Engineering,Medical,CA,Management, undergraduates) and professionals from various corporate houses at national and international level. She works as an Associate Professor with PSIT- an AICTE affiliated College and Area Director for Toastmasters International. Also runs an NGO ‘The Grooming School’ for training and grooming of aspirants and students.

1. Tongue Twisters
Dr Garima Williams
Associate Professor
PSIT, AKTU Lucknow
Subject In-Charge: Soft Skills
connect2garimaw@gmail.com
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2. Tongue Twisters
• A phrase or sentence
that is hard to speak
fast, usually because of
alliteration or a
sequence of nearly
similar sounds.
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3. Basically Made up by
combining the effects of :
Alliteration
and
Spoonerism
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4. Alliteration
• Repetition of a
sound, particularly
of
similar but not
identical sounds,
with a phrase
designed such that it
is made very easy to
slip (perhaps
making a
Spoonerism)
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5. Spoonerisms
Spoonerisms are words or phrases in
which letters or syllables get
swapped. This often happens
accidentally in slips of the tongue (or
tips of the slung as Spoonerisms are
often affectionately called!
• A lack of pies (A pack of lies)
• It's roaring with pain (It's pouring with rain)
• Wave the sails (Save the whales)
• Bad salad (Sad ballad)
• Mean as custard (Keen as mustard)
• Plaster man (Master plan)
• Pleating and humming (Heating and plumbing)
• Trim your snow tail (Trim your toe nails)
• Birthington's washday (Washington's Birthday)
• Trail snacks (Snail tracks)
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6. Tongue TwisterHistory
• Part of the folklore of
many cultures, and
were used in elocution
books as
“Recreations in
Articulation” designed to
perfect the principles
of perfect
pronunciation.
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7. Importance of Tongue Twisters
• Speech therapy.
• Pronunciation
Improvement
• To sound clear
• To improve fluency
• Speech Improvement
• Accent Neutralization
• Vocabulary Building
Often used by actors,
politicians, and public
speakers to sound clear.
Dr Garima Willams

8. • How to use this
technique effectively:
 Repeat the shorter tongue
twisters three or four
times rapidly from
memory without
stumbling.
or
 Read the longer tongue
twister verses as fast as
you can one time through
without making any
mistakes.
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9. ToyBoat
Can you say it
TEN times Fast?
Toy Boat, Toy
Boat, Toy Boat,
Toy Boat, Toy
Boat, Toy Boat,
Toy Boat, Toy
Boat, Toy Boat,
Toy Boat Dr Garima Willams

10. Buggy Bumpers
Can you say it
FIVE times Fast?
Rubber Baby Buggy
Bumpers, Rubber Baby
Buggy Bumpers,
Rubber Baby Buggy
Bumpers, Rubber Baby
Buggy Bumpers,
Rubber Baby Buggy
Bumpers!
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11. Peter Piper
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?
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12. Woodchuck
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could
chuck wood?
He would chuck, he
would, as much as
he could,
and chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck
would if a
woodchuck could
chuck wood.
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13. Seashells
She sells sea shells by
the
sea shore.
The shells she sells are
surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on
the seashore,
I'm sure she sells
seashore shells.
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14. Peter Pan
Picky people pick
Peter Pan Peanut-
Butter, 'tis the
peanut-butter
picky people pick!
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15. Cook Cookies
How many cookies
could a good
cook, cook If a good
cook could cook
cookies? A good cook
could cook as much
cookies as a good
cook who could cook
cookies.
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16. Betty Botter
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.
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17. Fuzzy Wuzzy
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a
bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had
no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't
very fuzzy, was he?
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18. Classification on the basis of specific sound.
Identify your problem area.
Practice accordingly.
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19. Tongue twister
1)How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck
wood?
2) Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers. How
many pickled peppers did
Peter Piper pick?
3) Can you can a can as a
canner can can a can?
4)Frivolously fanciful Fannie
fried fresh fish furiously
Sounds/words
emphasized
wood & chuck (means:
throw)
p
can
f
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20. 5)To begin to toboggan
first buy a toboggan, but
don't buy too big a
toboggan. Too big a
toboggan is too big a
toboggan to buy to begin
to toboggan.
6)She saw Sharif's shoes
on the sofa. But was she
so sure those were
Sharif's shoes she saw?
B & T
S & SH
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21. 7)Give papa a cup of
proper coffee in a
copper coffee cup.
8)Black background,
brown background
C & P
B
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22. 9: Seventy-seven
benevolent elephants
10:The sixth sick
Sheikh's sixty-sixth
sheep is sick
11: A loyal warrior will
rarely worry why we
rule.
12: A pessimistic pest
exists amidst us.
l & v
s & k
l & r
s & st
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23. 13: Drew Dodd's dad's
dog's dead.
14: Which witch
switched the Swiss
wristwatches?
15: She sells seashells by
the seashore.
D
w, s & ch
s & sh
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