Sunday, 19 March 2017

Tongue Twisters

Chinese: http://rinfuture.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/blog-post.html

SLOW DOWN AND PRONOUNCE EVERY SYLLABLE WITH CLARITY

Do not pause in-between, say the same words continuously for many times.  

0.0
0. anonymity

0. transatlantic

0. Thucydides Trap

0. strategic / geostrategic  

0. corollary

0. illiberalism

0. trajectory

a. slither / slitted throat

b. recognition

c. suggestion

d. movable / immovable 

e. worth less

f. post apocalyptic

h. mass breath  

i. existential

j. infrastructure

k. the usefulness of it / usefulness of it

l. squirrel

m. brewery

n. phenomenon

o. February

p. the inexorable wave / the inexorable

q. an unedifying

r. benevolent elephant

s. a little bit / a little bit slower


0.1 
a. Top cop (repeat quickly many times)

b.1. Good blood, bad blood (repeat quickly many times)

b.2. Canny allies have (repeat) 

b.3. Red lorry, yellow lorry (repeat)

c. Civilisation institutionalisation (repeat quickly many times)

d.0. Unique New York (repeat quickly many times)

d.1. You know New York. You need New York. You know you need unique New York. 

e. Peggy Babcock (repeat quickly many times)

f. Red leather robots, yellow leather robots (repeat quickly many times)

g. Irish Wristwatch, Swiss Wristwatch (repeat quickly many times)

g. Three free throws (repeat)

h. Pad kid poured curd pulled cold. (repeat quickly many times)

i. Four fine fresh fish for you. 

j. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks.

k. Three short sword sheaths.

l. Elizabeth's birthday.


0.2
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.


0.3
a. Freddy Thrush flies through thick fog.

b. Pre Prunes Are Plums and Post Plums Are Prunes.


0.4
a. The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.

b. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit; and on the slitted sheet I sit.

c. The sixth sitting sheet slitter slit six sheets.

d. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

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

f. Not these things here but those things there.

g. Ruth and Luther's moose's loosest tooth is uncouth.

h. Which witch wished which wicked wish?

i. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

j. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

k. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black butt.


0.5
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter
And made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter makes better batter.
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better


0.6
She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.


0.7
a. 
Peter Piper's practical principles of plain and perfect pronunciation.

b.
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?

0.8 
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. 
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. 
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. 
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. 
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.



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