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.
- She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
- The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick. (Is considered by many people to be the hardest tongue twister to say.
- Sally sold sea shells on the sea shore
- So sixtysix sick shaven sheiks sell sixth sheiks sick sixtysixth sheep. So sickly shells so sickly sells sixtysix sickly seashells should said sickly sixtysixth sheiks sick sixtysixth sheep surley sell sickly, shell sickly said seashells? (Considered by me to be hardest Tongue-twister. And I wrote it in 2 minutes).
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