Tongue Twisters & Tricky Teasers

These classic phrases are sure to get tongues in a tangle. Try saying each one three times as fast as you can—it won’t be long before everyone’s cracking up!

Quick Tongue Twisters:

1. Red leather, yellow leather.
2. Mother Mingle makes wax matches.
3. At Mr. Smith’s fresh fish shop, she’s welcoming him in.

More Challenging Tongue Twisters:

1. The sixth sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
2. Six thick thistle sticks.
3. Whistle for the thistle sister.
4. A tin of mixed biscuits in a mixed biscuit tin.
5. Rick’s a cricket cricket.
6. It’s an Irish wrist watch.
7. Two tiny orangutan tongues.
8. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
9. The shells she sells are seashore shells I’m sure.
10. The sea ceaseth, and it sufficeth us.

Longer Tongue Twisters:

1. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
2. A tutor tried to tutor two flute tooters to toot. Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?

Fun Teasers & Trick Questions:

Green Light Trick:
Ask someone to spell "S.H.O.P." three times. Then ask, "What do you do at a green light?" Most will say “Stop!”—but the answer is “Go!”

Strange Spellings:
MACNAB spells McNab, MACBETH spells Macbeth, MACCANN spells McCann, but MACHINE spells Machine! Shouldn’t it spell McHine?

A Classic Counting Tongue Twister:

1 1 was one racehorse.
2 2 was one too.
1 1 won one race, and
2 2 won one too.

Or try it this way:

1 1 was 1 racehorse,
and 2 2 was 1 2.
1 1 1 1 race,
and 2 2 1 1 2.