Tongue Twisters
Oh Say Can you Say? Oh my brothers! Oh my sisters! These
are TERRIBLE TONGUE TWISTERS!
(By: Dr. Seuss)
Oh say can you say the keener keen apes are
Said a book-reading parrot named Hooey, to gooble green grape cakes.
“The words in this book are all phooey. They’re GREAT.”
When you say them, your lips
will make slips and black flips Are you having trouble
and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey! in saying this stuff?
It’s really quite easy for me.
Fresh, Fresher, Freshest I just look in my mirror
Do you like fresh fish? and see what I say,
It’s just fine at Finney’s Diner. and then I just say what I see.
Finney also has some fresher fish
that’s fresher and much finer.
But his best fish is his freshest fish
and Finney says with pride,
“The finest fish at Finney’s
is my freshest fish , French-fried!”
So, don’t order the fresh
or the fresher fish
At Finney’s, if you are wise, you say:
“Fetch me the finest French-fried freshest fish
that Finney fries.”
Dinn’s Shin
We have a dinosaur named Dinn.
Dinn’s thin. Dinn doesn’t have much skin.
And the bones fall out
of his left shin.
Then we have to call in Pinner Blinn,
who comes with his handy shin-pin bin
and with a thin Blinn shinbone pin,
Blinn pins Dinn’s shinbones right back in.
Bed Spreader Bread Spreader
Bed Spreaders spread spreads on beds.
Bread Spreaders spread butters on breads.
And that Bed Spreader better
watch out how he’s spreading…
or that Bread Spreader’s
sure going to butter his bedding.
Ape Cakes Grape Cakes
As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
“The greener green grapes are,
Eat at Skipper Zipp’s and he likes to look at birds at night,
If you like to eat potato chips the gift for Dwight that might be right is a
and chew pork chops on clipper ships, Bright Dwight Bird-Flight
I suggest that you chew Night-Sight Light.
a few chips and a chop
at Skipper Zipp’s Clipper Ship Chip Chop
Shop. But Never Give Your Daddy a Walrus
A walrus with whiskers
And if your tongue is not a good pet.
is getting queasy And a walrus which whispers
don’t give up. is worse even yet.
The next one’s EASY! When a walrus lisps whispers
through tough rough wet whiskers,
your poor daddy’s ear
West Beast East Beast will get blispers and bliskers.
Upon an island hard to reach,
the East Beast sits upon his beach. And that’s almost enough
Upon the west beach sits the West Beast. Each of such stuff for one day
beach beasts thinks he’s the best beast. One more and you’re finished
Oh say can you say?…
Which beast is best? Well I thought at first that
the East was the best and the West was worst. The storm starts
Then I looked again from the west to the east when the drops start dropping.
and I like the beast on the east beach least. When the drops stop dropping
then the storm starts stopping.
Pete Pats Pigs
Pete Briggs pats pigs.
Briggs pats pink pigs.
Briggs pats big pigs.
(Don’t ask me why. It doesn’t matter.)
Pete Briggs is a pink pig, big pig patter.
Pete Briggs pats his big pink pigs all day.
(Don’t ask me why. I cannot say.)
Then Pete puts his patted pigs away
In his Pete Briggs’ Pink Pigs Big Pigs Pigpen.
Fritz Food
Fritz needs Fred and Fred needs Fritz.
Fritz feeds Fred and Fred feeds Fritz.
Fred feeds Fritz with ritzy Fred food.
Fritz feeds Fred with ritzy Fritz food.
And Fritz, when fed, has often said,
“I’m a Fred-fed Fritz. Fred’s a Fritz-fed Fred.”
And speaking of Christmas… (II)
But if your daddy’s name is Dwight
