TONGUE TWISTER EXERCISES

Tongue twisters provide an amusing supplement to the speech training charts, but their effectiveness should not be underestimated: 1. Whisper the twisters 2. Speak them with the teeth clenched (this makes the tongue and lips work more vigourously) 3. Speak them with good tone and firm articulation slowly but clearly 4. Speak the twisters more and more quickly still retaining clarity of articulation. 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, How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? Betty Botter bought some butter, But, she said, the butters bitter; If I put it in my batter It will make my batter bitter. But, a bit of better butter Will make my batter better. So, she bought a bit of butter Better than her bitter butter, And she put it in her batter And the batter was not bitter. So, twas better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter. Rumbling in the chimneys, rattling at the doors, Round the roofs and round the roads the rude wind roars, Raging through the darkness, raving through the trees, Racing off again across the great, grey seas. She sells seashells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So, if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

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