Tongue Twisters

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Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers… So goes the popular English tongue twister… And what about the Hindi tongue twister – kachcha papad, pakka papad, kachcha papad, pakka papad… Well, popularity of tongue twisters is spread across all languages. Be it for diction improvement, sharpening skills to play around with words or just for fun, we all love them for one reason or the other. I have collected some English tongue twisters with all conscious efforts to include only the interesting ones. Hope, you’ll enjoy them.

(…Are babuji aisi English aawae ) that I can leave Angrej behind. You see sir, I can talk English, I can walk English, I can laugh English because English is a very funny language. Bhairon becomes Byron and Byron becomes Bhairon because their minds are very narrow. In the year nineteen hundred and twenty nine, Sir, when India was playing against Australia in Melbourne city, Vijay Merchant and Vijay Hazare, they were at the crease and Vijay Merchant told Vijay Hazare, “Look Vijay Hazare, this is a very prestigious match and you must consider this match very carefully. So considering the consideration that Vijay Hazare gave Vijay Merchant, Vijay Merchant told Vijay Hazare that ultimately we must take a run and when they were striking the ball on the leg side, Sir, the consideration came into an ultimatum and ultimately Vijay Hazare went to Vijay Merchant and said…

In the year nineteen hundred and seventy nine, when India was playing against Pakistan in Wankede stadium Bombay, Wasim Raja and Wasim Bari, they were at the crease and Wasim Bari gave the same considertion to Wasim Raja and Wasim Raja told Wasim Bari “look sir, this ultimately has to end in a consideration which I cannot consider therefore the consideration that you are giving me must be considered very ultimately.” Therefore the run that they were taking, Wasim Raja told Wasim Bari “Wasim Bari you take the run…” and ultimately both of them ran inconsiderately, they got out.”

- From bollybood flick “Namak Halal” (eZaroorat – Tongue twisters)

Did you find this difficult? Watch the video below to see the bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan take on this tongue twister:

I bought a bit of baking powder and baked a batch of biscuits. I brought a big basket of biscuits back to the bakery and baked a basket of big biscuits. Then I took the big basket of biscuits and the basket of big biscuits and mixed the big biscuits with the basket of biscuits that was next to the big basket and put a bunch of biscuits from the basket into a biscuit mixer and brought the basket of biscuits and the box of mixed biscuits and the biscuit mixer to the bakery and opened a tin of sardines.

- said to be a diction test for would-be radio announcers: To be read clearly, without mistakes, in less than 20 seconds (from Coronet Magazine, August 1948) (eZaroorat – Tongue twisters)

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?