Tongue the Twister

Tongue is the main mourth part that helps in pronunciation. Speaking needs ingredients such as clarity and fluency. Our tongue needs practice to get acquainted to the new language, English. It has to familiarize itself for the words. The more we speak them the better results occur in speaking. We need continuous practice and it should be fun to do it. Every language has an interesting tool for this.
Tongue Twisters! Yes, once they were our best friends in teasing others - a harmless fun. Let's visit them now.

Tongue twisters are a great fun way to practice vocabulary. They help in clearing the mistakes in pronunciation and improve fluency. Repitition of one sound is known as alliteration. Tongue twisters have plenty of alliteration and help to improve accent as well
They have similar  but distinct phonemes (sounds)
e.g., s [s] and sh [ʃ]

She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.
For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore
Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.

Sometimes they combine two different alternation patterns

Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stopped Schwab's watch.
This twister won the grand prize in a contest in Games Magazine in 1979

This last one is a very commonly known one to all and had been playfully used in kindergarten years.
Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s 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 ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter



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