Tongue-twister

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A tongue-twister is a sentence that is hard to say. They often use alliteration and homophones.

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  • How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
  • How much straw could a strawberry bury if a strawberry could bury straw.
  • She slit a sheet, a sheet she slit.
  • Subterranean seismograph stuck in the stratosphere.
  • She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
  • The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
  • Sally sells sea shells on the sea shore