Скороговорки на английском / Tongue twisters
A
Knapsack strap.
A-j-p
How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
B
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
B-g-t
To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan.
But do not buy too big a toboggan!
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan
To buy to begin to toboggan.
B-g-bl
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
The big black bug’s blood ran blue.
Bl
One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.
Bl-br
Blake’s black bike’s back brake bracket block broke.
Bitter-batter-better-butter
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
Put it in her bitter batter,
Made her bitter batter better.
So it was better
Betty Botter bought some better butter.
The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
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!
Betty bought some bitter butter
And it made her batter bitter,
So Betty bought some better butter
To make her bitter batter better.
B-ks-sk
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.
Br-pr-p-k
She brews a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot.
C-u-ou
Mrs Hunt had a country cut front in the front of her country cut pettycoat.
Cl-cr-gl-gr
Clowns grow glowing crowns.
Doctor
When a doctor doctors a doctor,
Does the doctor do the doctoring doctor
As the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored
Or does the doctor do the doctoring doctor
As he wants to doctor?
Ea-e
Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
F
Four furious friends fought for the phone.
Fat frogs flying past fast
Five fat friars frying flat fish.
There was a young fisher named Fisher who fished for a fish in a fissure.
The fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in; now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer.
F-th
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
Fig plucker
I’m not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig pluckers’ son,
But I’ll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.
Fl
A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, «Let us fly!»
Said the fly, «Let us flee!»
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
G-gr
Great gray goats
Gl-gr
Green glass globes glow greenly
Had
Where Molly had had «had had», «had had» had had the teacher’s approval.
Magine-manage
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
Ng
The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
Ng-th
King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
Oi
What noise annoys an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
Ou-o:-i:
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw before Soar saw See.
P-f
I am a mother pheasant plucker, I pluck mother pheasants. I am the best mother pheasant plucker, that ever plucked a mother pheasant!
P-l
People pledging plenty of pennies.
P-t-e-i
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?
Pl-b-n-m
Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.
R
Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?
R-l
Red lorry, yellow lorry
Ri-ra-re
Richard’s wretched ratchet wrench.
S-sh-ks-th
The sixth sheik’s sixth sheep ‘s sick.
S-st-sh
Six stick shifts stuck shut.
S-th
Six thick thistle sticks.
Si-sea-x-k
Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.
Sl-s-sh
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.
Sh
Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
Sh-s
She slits the sheet she sits on
She sells sea shells on the seashore
We surely shall see the sun shine soon
Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, …
Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they’d rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers
Sister Suzie sews.
The soldier’s shoulder surely hurts!
She sees seas slapping shores.
She sells sea shells on the seashore.
The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.
Sh-s-f
Miss Smith’s fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
Sh-th-s-f-i-ei
She is a thistle sifter.
She has a seive of unsifted thistles
And a seive of sifted thistles and the seive of unsifted thistles
She sifts into the seive of sifted thistles because she is a thistle sifter.
Sk-st-th
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump thunk,
But the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
Smart
One smart man, he felt smart.
Two smart men, they both felt smart.
Three smart men, they all felt smart.
Spring
Don’t spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.
St-sl-o-i
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock or some joker who is slicker is going to trick you of your liquor if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
Sw-m-n-a-i
Swan swam over the sea.
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again.
Well swum, swan!
Sw-r-wa
Switch watch, wrist watch.
Irish wristwatch
T
A Tudor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
«Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?»
The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.
Th
Thirty thousand thirsty thieves thundered through the thicket.
Th-ough
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.
Th-b-a-a
The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
Th-s-w
There’s a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
Th-w
Three witches watch three watches. Which witch watches which watch?
Tw
A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
And the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
Now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
Would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists.
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
W-ch-sw
There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.
W-ch-sh-ck
Which witch wished which wicked wish?
W-one
One-One was a racehorse;
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.
W-r-i-ea
Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
W-r-s
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches
What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut
W-th
Whenever the weather is cold. Whenever the weather is hot. We’ll whether the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
Wi-wa
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
Wood-could-chuck
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
If a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Новогодние скороговорки
Santa’s sleigh slides on slick snow.
Tiny Timmy trims the tall tree with tinsel.
Bobby brings bright bells.
Seven Santas sang silly songs.
How many deer would a reindeer reign if a reindeer could reign deer?
Running reindeer romp around red wreaths.
Kris Kringle chose to climb the chimney at Christmas.
Chilly chipper children cheerfully chant.
Two trains travel together to Toyland.
Eleven elves licked eleven little licorice lollipops.
Santa’s sack sags slightly.
Ten tiny tin trains toot ten times.
Santa stuffs Stephie’s striped stocking.
There’s chimney soot on Santa’s suit.
Comet cuddles cute Christmas kittens carefully.
Kris Kringle clapped crisply.
Santa secretly sips sugary syrup.
Santa’s super sleigh slips so swiftly through the snow.
There’s chimney soot on Santa’s suit.
Crazy kids clamor for candy canes and Christmas cookies.
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