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TONGUE TWISTERS

A big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back! 

Four furious friends fought for the phone.

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 

Green glass globes glow greenly. 

There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch. 

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.

Can you can a can as a canner can can a can? 

When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. 

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he? 

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. 

How many cans can a cannibal nibble, if a cannibal can nibble cans? As many cans as a cannibal can nibble if a cannibal can nibble cans. 

I have got a date at a quarter to eight, I’ll see you at the gate so don’t be late. 

I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

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? 

Seven slick slimy snails, slowly sliding southward. 

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday. 

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not.
Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot. 

We'll weather the weather whether we like it or not.

Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter, and the better butter Betty bought was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!

When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls. Whether the temperature's up or whether the temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the pitcher are always around. The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches. So whether the temperature rises or whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls. 

Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me. My mother's making me marry Mary Mac. Will I always be so merry when Mary's taking care of me? Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac? 

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