Tongue Twister
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A Tongue Twister is a passage that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly.
- AKA: Tongue-Twister.
- Example(s):
- an English Tongue-Twister:
- 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? - 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.
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
- an English Tongue-Twister:
- See: Word Game, Alliteration, Monologue.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister Retrieved:2014-9-10.
- A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.
For example
" Peter Pan plays the pan pipes, but were the pan pipes named after Peter Pan or Peter Pan the pan pipes." author Dominic Roberts.
- A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.