Tongue Twisters in English

Speaking skills of English includes a standard pronunciation along with the stress pattern. Speaking needs practice. Tongue twisters made this task easy through the repeated twisted forms of the words and sounds. 

A tongue twister is a sequence of words. Tongue twisters are typically tough to pronounce quickly and ocrrectly. One example of a tongue twister is " Peter Piper picked peck of pickled peppers." Try to say it slowly first. Repeat this many times to get the pronunciation of the words right. 

Even speakers of native regions find it difficult to practice tongue twisters. They are a fun way to practice pronounciation. They are to be spoken loud, slowly and correctly. 
 

Here are a two more popular examples:

Tongue Twister 1:

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.

Tongue twister 2
 

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

Some more simpler Tongue Twisters for the practice:
* Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
* Give papa a cup of proper coffe in a copper coffe cup.
* The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
* Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.

 

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